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vicious attacks already launched
against the railroad workers by the
roads and the open cooperation OF
the government in all their Wage-cut-
ting and economy" plans, every
move which can be utilized for the
unity Of the railroad workers should
be encouraged and supported At the
same time we must examine every
proposal and only support those
where the interests of the workers are
sufficiently safeguarded
United Action On Pensions vital
The move for united campaign
to put over a bill for retirement pen
sions for railroad workers still suf-
lers from division among the leaders.
The National Pension Association has
rc-introduced its bill as Senate Bill
No. 8i7, House Bill No. 423l The
new bill has certain Improvements
and is more in line with the finan-
cial provisions of the Brotherhood
bill But the leaders of the National
Pension Association seem more in
tent on getting credit for having in
troduced the first bill than in uniting
all railroad workers to get one bill
passed.
The Railroad BrUtherhoods' Unity
Committee, in AN article published in
Unity News, which re-appears for the
first time since December, points out
that both the Brotherhood and PEN
sion Association bills have serious de-
fleets. but it does not propose to rem
edy these defects by introducing q
third bill, thus further splitting the
unity Of the workers on pension
legislation.
It calls on the membership Of the
railroad unions, as well as those
union and non-union workers in the
Pension Clubs, to get together in one
concerted move for a national rail-
road retirement pension bill. It
points out the failure Of both bills
to protect the rights of railroad men
to strike and organize for improving
their conditions. 1t agrees to con-
tributions from the men only if the
younger men and those earning low
wages be exempted from contribut-
ing, and 1t suggests methods for pro-
tecting the workers between the ages
Of 55 and SIS years, whom the com
panies might want to fire to save
| pension expense.
Furthermore, it warns railroad men
that while their eyes are turned on
Washington, the roads have under
consideration plan to get rid Of at
least half Of their pension payments
by forcing Che workers Of each road
to help finance these private schemes,
under threat of stopping them alto
gether.
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April 20 -
The International Labor Defense,
through its attorney David Levinson,
today won another victory in the
fight to prevent the extradition of
Edward Alonzo Robertson, 23-year-
old Negro to a Georgia chain gang.
Earlier in the week Levinson had
obtained writ of habeas corpus, and
yesterday Judge Finletter in Quarter
Session court granted motion for
a continuance Of the hearing for two
weeks.
This action follows the decision Of
Judge Lowell of Boston who refused
to extradite another Negro, George
Crawford, to face frame-up murder
trial in Virginia. Lowell's decision was
based on the ground that Crawford
would be unable to get fair trial in
Virginia since Negroes are systematic
ally excluded from jury service. Both
actions are direct repercussion OF
the fight of the International Labor
Defense in the Scottsboro, Herndon
and other cases.
Robertson was twice convicted of
murder for completely, together with
another Negro named Paige, and q
white named Higgins, in the stabbing
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MORATORIUM ON
PLUMBERS DUES

GREAT FALLS, Mont, April 3d.
Pressure of rank and file in the local
unions of the Ur + I'd Association of
Plumbers who have flooded the Cen
eral Officers with resolutions de-
nouncing explosions of unemployed,
has finally forced the officials to an
nounce a moratorium on dues until
January 1, 1885. The moratorium af-
fects all unemployed and part time
workers. At the same time the off
Gals have made the gesture of cut
ting their salaries although it is well
known that they make up for these
cuts through padding their expense
accounts.
The local here has been particu-
larly active in pressing this issue.
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have come to them, not only from
workers in the United States, but
from other countries as well.
The prison guards sought to quell
the protest OF the Negro boys by
bringing to the day cell about IS
white and Negro prisoners, armed
with blackjacks. The guards called
for the boys to come out, but the
latter refused, arming themselves
with whatever they could find about
the cell for defense-continuing all
the time to shout protests.
The attack upon them was called
off, but the boys refused to leave the
cell for "a hours. They were denied
all food during this time, according
to the I. L. D. attorney, and, contrary
to capitalist press reports. were not
even given bread and water
The boys surrendered, Schwab re-
ports, when they were promised better
treatment. Their spirit Is high, he
says, and they feel confident of ulti-
mate release by the workers Of the
country.
NEW YORK. "A truckload OF
marchers is leaving today from Port
land, Ore, it is announced by the
National Scottsboro Action Commit
tee, 119 w. 135th ST., which is organ
izing the march. The purpose Of the
March to Washington is TO demand
OF President Roosevelt on Msy 8 that
he frt@cede fcr tise rescese Of the
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tant group OF actives which is doins
lot Of work. A great many leaflets
have been issued and circulated
among the men.
Join Up
Every worker who has a hack
badge should join the organization.
Never mind how temporary you re-
gard your sojourn in the taxi indus
try. The Union has an excellent nu-
cleus. 1t publishes paper which
is beginning to get wide responss
among drivers. Ia
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Seamen's Home Is
Forced Labor Machine
by a Marine Worker Correspondentl

by Marine Worker Correspondent
BROOKLYN, N. Y.-'Tf you are
not willing to take the First Job Of
fered, you are not entitled to relief"
says a sign in The Norwegian Sea-
mems Home. in Brooklyn. This same
charity outfit advertises in the Nor
disk Tidende" Ga bourgeois Sheet
for boys born in America, to sail on
Norwegian ships cruising the Carib-
bean. These boys are put to work
as galley boys. bell hops, engine room
boys and deck boys, at the magni-
ficent wage Of Sc a month. There
are 300 Norwegian seamen around
the Home who could use these jobs
except for the lousy wages
$500 A Month
Flremen shipped to the Norwegian
ships get S25 a month, deckhands
get approximately the same. If they
refuse, they are thrown out, so every
job that comes in means three or
four thrown out of the Home
Money Filched From Seamen
The Norwegian Seamen's Church,
which runs Home" is poor
place to send money to friends or
relatives on the beach. Dozens Of
men have reported that money sent
them in care of the Church never
reached them. An instance is the
case of a seaman whose aunt sent
him two letters, each containing a
SIS bill. She saw him later and found
he had never received either. TAX
ing the matter up with the Pastor
he explained that they stuck out a
notice saying Mail for" The
man who presented the slip was
given the mail, without a check OF
Identification papers. although every
seaman carries them.
How do know you didn't take
it, this woman asked the Pastor.
He was indignant, but couldn't
prove anything. The victims Of such
thefts are afraid to put up a protest
because they viii be tarusgn ems 81
'ssAs Mhrs " Meg a., \,
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he stood more than knee deep in
water all day working on the bridge
foundation. Robertson weighed about
IT'S pounds when he went on the
chain gang and at the time of his
escape in the Fall of 1892 had lost
about 20 to Is pounds.
Extradition for Robertson was
signed by Governor Pinchot on Mon
day afternoon, April "a, and arrived
in Philadelphia on April 25. That
same afternoon Levinson obtained the
writ of habeas corpus for a hearing
Friday.
Stresses Violated Rights
In his argument before Judge Fin
letter and also in telephone CONVEX
sations with Gov. Pinchot regarding
the case, the l. L. D. attorney stressed
two points of federal constitutional
right: the Eighth amendment to the
q. S. constitution prohibiting cruel
and unusual punishment: the sixth
amendment emitting a defendant to
a trial by an impartial jury, and the
fourteenth amendment requiring due
process Of law.
At all times, of course, Levinson
stressed the fact that no jury could
be regarded as an impartial jury
when Negroes were definitely and
particularly excluded from Jury SER
vice although qualified to serve. The
I. l.. D. attorney also stressed the in
human cruelty visited by the autho-
rites in the State of Georgia upon
chain gang prisoners, particularly
upon the Negroes.
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No California S., Chicago. has cir
culated a for-page program which
calls for thorough housecleaning at
the Grand Office: the election TO Of
flee OF members right from the throt-
tie the repeal of gag law and the
revision Of the constitution to take
the power out of the hands Of the
Grand Officers. They call on the
delegates to the convention to take
the Brotherhood out of the real
estate, banking and other businesses
Gnce and for all and act as real
labor union They call for lower dues
and assessments, free Unemployed
Stamps for members out of work,
for unemployment insurance and
cash relief for the men laid off and
shorter hours and lower wages. They
call on the convention to join with
the 20 other railway labor organiza-
tons as well as the unOrganized and
unemployed to resist the attacks OF
the companies, which cover wage
cuts abrCgatiOn Of working rules and
agreements and other economic"
which take a seam in the pay enve-
lope.
Finally, the appeal to other rank
and file groups at every Division
Point to meet to discuss these and
similar demands and together work
out joint program and organize to
enforce it at the coming convention
Pension Plan Broadens Its Progra-,
At the same time the Railroad
NJ.
ton, under pressure of its thousands
Of members, has abandoned its policy
Of working only for retirement pen
sions and presents a referendum for
the coming convention Of the
Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engi-
neers. This program calls for lower
dues and assessments on a percentage
Of earnings basis. II proposes dras-
tic cuts in salaries and overhead Of
the Grand Lodge machinery and de-
mands rank and file control of the
Brotherhood through the election tC
office OF men in actual service and
through the initiative referendum
and recall
While falling to come Out against
wage-cuts and for unemployment in
surance and relief for the million I'M
employed rails, the Pension
Association is to be congratulated or
supporting the cause Of the rank anC
file in the Engineers Brotherhood
The olear-cut move to join engineer;
and firemen in one organization, plE
| the provisions for rank and file con-
troll and repression of gag rule, is g
sign that the membership Of the Pen
sion Association is determined to use
this organization to fight for its in
terests in the unions. With the
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Breakers OF Workers
Unity

Party, which controlled the Conven-
ton, the outstanding leader of which
is certain DR.. Green.
Mooney Shall Not Be Heard"
The same people decided not to
hear from Mooney by voting down a
proposal that Louis Scott, represen-
tative of Mooney, address the Conven-
ton. DR.. Green declared. "He shall
not be heard" That is, Mooney is
not to be heard at the Socialist Party
Convention.
This goes hand in hand with the
whole history of the Socialist Party
in struggle for freedom of Mooney,
that is, against the freedom Of
Mooney. 1t is the Socialist Party
that expelled Tom Mooney from the
Executive Committee of the Social
list Party when he was arrested on
frail1eup charges.
AS to telegram direct from
Mooney to the Convention, calling
upon delegates to come to the Free
Mooney Congress, the Convention de-
cided to put the telegram on file.
All these acts were committed on
April 22nd.
The Chicago Tribune" in column
"16 Years Ago" carries the following:
'PETROGRAD. - The American
Embassy was threatened with at
tack by a mob of radical Socialists.
melted by Nikolai Lenin. A crowd
which gathered at Nevsky Prospect
late on the mite of April 22nd,
a. rfaH Ger s,,k
tiamen dispersed them before they
hurled missiles at the soldiers.
Leflin harangued the crowd, brand
ing America an enemy of Socialism,
for u decision TO hang a Socialist
named Mooney at San Francisco"
Sixteen years ago the Petrograd
workers, led by Lenin, raised their
voice Of protest against hanging OF
Mooney and the echo of it was heard
around the world and saved Mooney
from the gallows. Sixteen years later
the leaders of the Socialist Party in
the State of Illinois declared that
Mooney viii not be heard. This is in
line with the decision of Governor
Rolph who declared 'The Mooney
case is closed"
But the Mooney case is mot closed, y
neither is he mot heardl"
MONEYS ringing call for unity will
break thru the wall built by the
Greens, VOLS, Hillquits, Fitzpatrick.
Nockles, Seniors and Ben LarkS into
the ranks Of the Socialist Party and
into the ranks Of the A. F. Of L.
There is already growing resent
ment in the ranks of the Socialist
Party and A. F. of l.. on the issue to
Free Tom Mooney. The Socialist
Party carries out the policy of John
l.. Lewis and begins to expel members
from the Socialist Party who fight
for a united front action to free Tom
Mooney, This was signified particu-
larry in expelling four members of the
Socialist Party and Young Peoples
| Socialist League in Chicago.
The capitalist class needs the strike
breakers of working class unity. The
executive committees of the A. F. OF
L. and Socialist Party will not stor
the working class in it's struggle fol-
free Mooney. The ruling class anC
the strike breakers are afraid thai
united pressure of the masses, will
be able to open the doors which were
closed on Tom Mooney II years ago
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WON'T WORK ON
HOLLANDER FURS

CHICAGO, Ill, April 30.-The
workers of the Nakutkins fur shop in
Wuinnetka, Ill, refused to work for
skins died by Hollander g. Co., the
firm which was responsible for the
murder of Morris LANCER, Needle
Trades Union leader, recently. The
manufacturer was forced to cancel an
order for several hundred skins. At
the insistence of the workers, the fol-
lowing firms have promised not to use
Hollander skins; Harry, A. Fox, Inc,
Adler, Quality, Shatufsky, Monarch
and the Beckman Fur shops. Hol-
lander was the shop which hired
thugs to kill Morris LANCER.
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wo 'Scrs, The strike is now in its
third week. The strikers demanded
union recognition before entering
wage negotiations. The manufactur-
ers declared they were unwilling to
recognize the union They offered
wage increases and minimum wage
OF S14 and $18. The discussion ended
when the workers refused to accept
these terms recognizing that wage
increases which are not backed up
by strong union may soon be with
drawn.
At the same time the strikers con-
tinue their nllltancy and determine
ton to win their demands for wage
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increases and a union. Strikers in
Danvers shattered the windows of a
truck carrying a load of scabs to the
Helburn Thompson Plant yesterday
support Hunger March
Leather strikers in strike meet
ing in Lynn yesterday voted endorse
ment of the Chicago Mooney confer
ence and sent telegram of support.
All locals Of the National Shoe
Workers Association in Lynn voted
financial support to the Massachu-
sets Hunger March and contributed
s55. The Hunger March will give full
support to the strike Of the leather
workers.
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.AA'N NOiio1 - AiON AuObGu db q us
count Of Is per cent, or 85 cents on
the dollar, in terms of foreign curreh-
cies.
Huge Initiation.
The enactment of the Thomas
amendment into law, combined with
the Emergency Bank Act, will give
Roosevelt unlimited inflstionary
powers. The Thomas amendment is
permissive, not mandatory. But it is
a certainty that Roosevelt will be
forced to embark upon enormous in
flation.
The Thomas amendment provides
for the issuance of $4,000, 100000 of
"greenback" currency, the reduction
of the gold content of the dollar,
and the acceptance of 5000, 000, 900 in
silver which may be coined or used
as backing for paper currency.
There has also begun a rise in
rents. A leading real estate author
ity in New York City, Charles F. Noy-
es, says, "There has been unquestion-
ably an improved rental in cheap
apartments, in private houses. in
more expensive apartments, in lofts,
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Richmond Meet

RICHMOND, Va, April 30.--One
thousand Negro and white workers,
professionals and students crowded
the Fifth st. Baptist Church here at
a Scottsboro protest meeting.
Speakers included Richard B.
Moore Of the International Labor De-
Tense, who called for mass support
for the Scottsboro March to Wash
ington.
Prof. J. E. Moore of Virginia Union
University voiced the sentiment OF
the audience when he declared that
he was mot scared by the Red bo-
gey. II the Communists fight for the
Scottsboro boys, then am willing to
fight with them"
The meeting was held under the
auspices OF the Richmond United
Front Scottsboro Defense Committee
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'LEYIATHAN' CAN
BE- CHANGED INTO
CRUISER QUICKLY
Worker Tells About
Conditions On
Board

by Marine Worker Correspondent.)
NEW YORK CT1'Y.--The S. S.
Leviathan is ballyhooed as the
greatest ship afloat" I want the
workers to know some OF the condi-
tons on the Levi" which are not so
great for the workers.
Some time ago. through complaints
registered in the Levi Log the
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qualified as an expert shot in the
contest held here ON April 10.
Some Of the local railroad workers
wonder if Steed is getting some prac-
tice and preparing to shoot workers
If the occasion should require. This
is by no means so far-fetched, con-
sidering what Steed used to do in
Dayton, O., when he operated against
tbs workers sats~e.
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NOTTSBORO BOYS OWN STORY OF JAIL ABUSE

PASO April 0-The
delegates Washington hit the
within according
Of the Southwestern
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All Commodity Prices
Continue to RiS e
Rents, Sugar, Coffee, Wheat, Rise as Senate
Passes Initiation Bill
Organize Against Lowering of the Workers
Living Standards


omasnf amer
Wheat closed and SIS
futures
higher Rubber cotton, highs
stocks Seeply
low dropping cents against sterling
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NORFOLK, Va. (by maiD With
Richard B. Moore Of the LID as the
chief speaker, the local Citizens
Scottsboro Aid Committee held a
protest meeting attended by more
than 500 al the 81. yolsa,s Ahpscsn
>0ersxeA hs~s- r. -
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NOTE

Letters from Transportation Work
ers, Marine, Railroad, Subway, Street
car, Cab-driVers, etc, are published
every Monday. Letters sS,uld be in
our hands by the previous THURSDAY.
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Transportation Workers on the Alert
Report Their Conditions By Letter
do NOT HOLD ALOOF AS | DID,
WRITES new YORK TAXI DRIVER
Criticized Union, But Did Not Join. Now He
Appeals to All Hacllmen To Join Up
By q TaxI Dive Correspondent

NEW YORK CITYon February IA wrote to the Daily Worker
plight
them offered criticism
Union namely did sufficiently
most pressing grievances of the
Daily touch with the Union and
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TANNERY STRIKERS REJECT OFFER
SETTLE STRIKE OF 1000 WITH
NO RECOGNITION OF THE UNION
Strike Meeting in Lynn Endorses Free Tom
Mooney Congress" in Chicago; State
Hunger March Aids the Strike

LYNN April SOA committee Of
with representing
the Citizens Committee the
settlement
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The Chicago Mooney ocngsanA
Arra % 30 sxsy \ van 10 ~ saw
aswnss ~ ssnAas.as==sszA &eeAss
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Fight Against Wage
Cuts Is Big Issue at
Engineers Convention
Railroad Brotherhoods Unity Movement Calls
for Clean Up at Headquarters of Union; for
Unity With 20 Other Union Against Cuts

The Convention the Brotherhood
lcd
umbn indication movements
already with their points
The Railroad Brotherhoods Unity Committee
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What's StoOl-Pigeon
Steed Practicing For?
tBy a Railroad Worker
Correspondent

IRONTON, O.-7Jack Steed, whom
we exposed as a stool pigeon and
enemy Of the workers in these parts
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and soap. Now they have stopped
this and we are raising the demand
again.
Mr.. Rake OFF.
The staff chief, Rakoff (Rake off,
we call hinD, recently noticed two
men carrying firebricks on board on
a hand board. These bricks are heavy
and are packed in bags Of ten. He
told them to "double-up, there's
hundred men waiting to take your
jobs outside"
The End senior in the engineroom
drives the men. Recently we were
raising a turbine case. Chief Fa-
gan had left orders we were to have
80 minutes off for lunch. AS soon as
we got through with coffee and a
sandwich he made US go back. All
that was lacking was whip to drive
us with. Other officers are picking
UP his style"
0ffioerx' Petty Graft.
You have 10 pay the chief mess
man 81 q trip II you want any ice
cream or cake. They feed stew every
Sunday now
The Leyiathan can be changed into
an auxiliary cruiser within "a hours.
1t is up to the workers on board to
organize and fight against these con-
ditions and be ready 10 fight against
the bosses when they want to use her
A& w~g rxs9csss 6eA MssAna
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have since helped in its work. Some
of the active members Of the organ
ization quite justly criticized my own
attitude. They rightly felt that 1 had
committed serious error in remain
ing outside the union, acting as a
spectator instead of a participant in
a fight
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paper of the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union on board, we succeeded
in forcing them to furnish us towels
and soap. Now they have stopped
this and we are raising the demand
again.
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Correct Tactics

The organization is now pursuing
the correct tactics, stressing the most
immediate grievances Of the drivers.
There is a serious-minded and mill