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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-12

heads of each industry will preside
over the various military business
and price-fixing wartime boards
which will dictate prices in their
own fields. Furthermore, this pro-
vision fails to treat the certainty of
huge profits through bulk war or
ders even if the concern in ques-
ton has made only a 3 per cent
profit during the years previous to
a declaration of war. Lastly, Off
cial records, especially the enlight-
ening Graham Committee reports
on the monumental greed and cor
ruption (both inseparable from cap
italism) that accompanied the
shell-coining of workers bodies into
new power and new markets for the
banking and industrial rulers of
the victorious capitalists armies,
show the absolute impoSsibility Of
preventing business fraud and
chicanery and the impracticability
OF understanding or supervising the
big corporations accounts.
That is the difference between
what the American Legion rank
and file demanded and what they
got from their leadership, the A. F.
Of L. officialdom and the govern
ment.
Many Vets Know Better
Fortunately, however, many thou
sands of veterans, seamen and long
shoremen, understand that it is bet
ter to prevent one American, jap
anese, British, French, or any other
imperialist ship from leaving port
with guns, powder cotton or other
war supplies designed for the
slaughter of workers in other lands
than to wait for or believe in ten
thousand investigations" or arma-
ment and munition manufacturers
In the case of Japan, for instance
these militant workers realize how
important it is to explain to all
workers, regardless of union or po-
litical affiliation, that the Jap
snese workers and peasants are
heroically opposing their own bank
ers, industrialists and landlords
They explain this to them to make
it clear that the anti-Japanese
sentiment of American workers
must be directed toward the real
enemies Of proletarian internation-
alism-American and Japanes
bankers, industrialists and land
lords.
These militant workers recall to
their fellows how American and
japanese marine workers, in Seattle
in 1919, refused to load ships with
munitions and other war supplies
destined for the Siberian armies of
Admiral Kolchak, the White Guard
spearhead of the imperialist inter-
ventionist campaign led by the
British, French, japanese and
American governments against the
newly founded Soviet Union, the
Fatherland and champion of work
ers Of all lands.
Ito Be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-12
2,5OOMichigan
MenWinStrike
On Relief Cut
Communist Mayor of
PIatt on Strike
Committee
BY JOHN PACE

ANN ARBOR, Mich, July IL
The $500 relief workers In Wash
entaw County who struck on July
2 against a pay cut in the budget
allowances, won the strike with a
20 per cent wage increase and the
recognition of the workers elected
grievance committees.
AS soon as the cut was ordered by
the relief commission, William
Young, Communist Mayor of Platt.
Michigan, called a meeting of the
Unemployment Council. A COM
mittee was elected to go to the
Trade Union Council of Ann Arbor
ian A. F. of L. body to take up
the question of a strike.
A meeting was called on June 80
of all relief workers, and a strike
was voted. A strike committee was
elected, plan of action adopted,
and demands formulated. The ques-
ton of authority from the National
office of the A. F. of L, was raised
in some locals, but the militant
rank and file demanded immediate
strike action, and united action
with all the relief workers. On
the County Jail construction job,
where the majority of the workers
are skilled, all stuck in solidarity
with the laborers who are discrim-
mated against by the supervisor
demanding that the supervisor be
fired. A public trial of the super
intendent will be held with three
members of the strike committee
and three welfare workers compris-
ing the trial board.
The workers elected strike COM
mittee including w. Young, Com
munist Mayor of Plat, the organ
izer of the Unemployment Council
the Section Organizer of the Com
munist Party; a Negro worker, a
member of the Section Committee
of the Communist Party and mem
bers of the Trade Union Council
and the A. F. of L. locals.
This example of united action
must be used by all workers in their
struggles. The bosses in their greedy
fight to pile up more profits are
trying to lower still further the
standard of living for the en-
ployed and unemployed. New relief
cuts are taking place daily. In Dc
troit and Wayne County workers
are striking against a relief cut in
the form OF an hourly slash from
"a to 20 hours a week. The De-
troit relief workers must follow the
example of the workers in Ann Ar
Dor for a general work relief strike
against this latest cut.
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and corporations "95 per cent of
all income above the previous three
year average, with proper adjust
ments for capital expenditures for
war purposes by existing or new
industries" To remove all doubt
concerning its idea of distributing
the wartime burdens and sacri-
fees equitably," the Commission
members recommended that no
constitutional amendment to permit
the taking of private property in
time of war without compensation
be considered by the Congress"
They recommended this, despite the
fact that the resolution under
which the Commission sat directed
them TO study and consider
amending the Constitution of the
United States to provide that pri-
vate property may be taken by
Congress for public use during war"
In other words, the Commission
said that workers lives should con-
tinue to be taken by imperialism.
But private property? Why, that's
another matter.
The allowance for proper adjust
mentS for capital expenditures for
war purposes by existing or new in
dustries" is, Of course, just a joker
to make certain that the war prof
its will be as juicy as ever. Such
ingenuity may not even be neces-
sary in view Of the fact that the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-12
The War Set-Up in Washington

EDITORS NOTE: This is the
fifth Of a series Of articles on war
preparations by Seymour Wald-
man, Washington correspondent
OF the Daily Worker.
WILLIAM GREEN, president of
w the American Federation Of
Labor, a member of the strikebreak-
ing National Labor Board and one
of the loudest ballyhooers of the
painted New Deal, testified be-
fore the Nye-Vandenberg Senate
Commission. Green, after studying
the economics of the situation"
gave the commission the benefit of
his proftS-smudged scholarship and
research. He said: 81 think we all
agree, everyone who has studied the
economics of the situation, that in
dustry and capital are entitled to
a fair return upon their investment
under any circumstances-in times
Of war or times Of peace"
OF course, little need be said as
far as equalizing the burdens of
war is concerned. 1t is a recklessly
brazen and demagogic capitalism
that prattles Of such equalizing
when it must put away in sched-
uled hospitals the hulks that once
were whole men. The shattered men
who we're drafted to save ]. P.
Morgan and Company from going
to the wall as the fiscal agent of
British and French imperialism.
The sufferers whose blood was
coined to give millions to Charles
M. Schwab and other patrioteers
who ran the Emergency Fleet Cor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-12
Aim of Labor
Board Is to
Break Strikes
Will Give Free Hand to
Terror While Passing
Buck on Grievances
lD.IIy worker wa.hInslon nureaul


WASHINGTON, July 11.-The
new Roosevelt Labor Relations
Board held its first general press
conference yesterday, expressing
confusion as to when 1t will take
jurisdiction in disputes and as to
just how it will proceed on almost
every vital question.
One thing seems clear, however
that, as predicted last week by the
Daily Worker, the new board will
sit back in vital strike situations in
basic industries and allow the ma
jor strikebreaking job to be done
by special boards such as the Ma
tional Longshoremen's and National
Steel Labor Relations Boards. The
board will give a free hand to the
terror against strikers.
UncIear On Duties
Lloyd Garrison, chairman of the
new board, issued a statement say
ing it's first job is to determine ito
what extent our board and its agen-
cies will attempt 10 act in purely
mediatory capacity in labor disputes
not involving an alleged violation of
Section IA" In other words, there
is a possibility that this board will
restrict its activities to cases involv-
ng Section IA. This would allow
them to stall along strike situations
while they considered" whether or
not they had Jurisdiction, and while
the terror is used to try to smash
the strikes.
Although the newspapers are
playing up this board as q "Su-
preme Court of Labor Disputes" a
kind of court of last resort, CARR
son, asked whether he could Sug-
gest a different method of pro-
cedure to other boards, said, Il sup
pose we have power to suggest any,
thing to anybody, but we are not
parent board in any sense" He
added, however, that in certain in
stances they might review cases.
Just what these restrictions and
conditions are was not made clear.
will you take up the labor ques-
tons in the Hartman case?" a
correspondent asked, referring to
the Tennessee Textile Mill which
has locked out it's workers.
Buck Passing
This is in the hands of the COM
pliance board (of the N. r. Al -. !.
There will be no change in the sys-
tenn of enforcement" Garrison re-
piled, indicating that the now estab-
hshed practice of buck-passing from
one N. R. A. agency to another, and
among them and the Department of
Justice, will go undiSturbed
wherever the question is that of
violation of agreements by employ
ers.
The new board is composed of
former corporation-law and per-
sonnelmanagement and university
professors. The chairman, although
he is dean of the University of Wis
consin Law School, constantly
turned to the young counsel for the
board for the answers to questions
today.
The board will hold a conference
with heads Of the Regional Boards
this weekend to study the problem
of what to DO about the 20 regional
boards established under the old
labor board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-12
Bosses Paper
Proves Green
AS Their Tool
Asserts He Forced Auto
Arbitration Board on
Rank and File
BY NAT GANLEY

DETROIT, Mich.-A news story,
which adopts a friendly attitude TO
william Green and Collins. in the
June 30th issue of Automotive In
duStries, bears out the charges made
by the Daily Worker in its reports
on the June 23rd-24th American
Federation Of Labor auto locals
conference. Automotive Industries
is the organ Of the manufacturers.
The Daily Worker charged that
the National Council Of IL men set
up by the conference would be an
instrument of the bureaucratic ma
chine without any powers of its
own. This charge is borne out by
the following:
william Green, president Of
the A. F. L., proposed the plan for
establishment Of the council" de-
clares the manufacturers organ.
HE said that the federation
would finance the council on con-
ditiOn that the chairman be
named by the A. F. Of L. and that
ONLY MATTERS PRESENTED
BY THE NATIONAL A. F. Of L.
REPRESENTATIVE BE CONSm-
Erred BY THE COUNCIL"
The Daily Worker charged that
the conference was railroaded thru
in the most brazen, bureaucratic
manner by the officials. Delegates
were confused by the parliamentary
tricks of Green, Collins 81 Co., their
own motions were kicked of the
floor, etc. Says Automotive Indus
tries:
There was reported to have
been considerable opposition to
the program on the grounds that
Mr.. Green, with the assistance Of
william Collins, his chief lieuten-
ant at Detroit, was trying to rail-
road the meeting"
The Daily Worker reported that
the rank and file delegates put up
a militant battle against the ma
chine. Automotive Industries re-
cords this battle as ga tug of war
in the conference" between the
more radical delegates and "the
conservative members who wish to
cooperate with the labor board and
who recognized, as the board does,
that patience and time are required
in solving many Of labOr's prob
Iems."
The Daily Worker declared that
the rank and filers were able to
muster a big support behind their
attack on the Green Collins ma
chine and a substantial support in
favor of their proposal for one mill
tant industrial union in the auto
industry. Talking about the Green
Collins council plan, Automotiye In
dustries declares:
"The program is reported to
have been adopted by only mar
row margin, many Of the 130-odd
delegates voting against it."
The manufacturers, who now hope
to steer this rank and file disgust
with the Green-Collins machine
into the channels of splitting the
A. F. Of L. and building the COM
pany unions, will get the surprise
of their life when the A. F. of L.
opposition consolidates its ranks.
The A. F. of L. workers will follow
the lead of the Cleveland White
Motor local, which developed indie
pendent struggle over the heads OF
the bureaucratic officials and won
important improvements for the
workers. These struggles should be
extended in united front with the
M. E. S. A. and Auto Workers Union
locals.
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result tne healtn or the clty'S
masses is in greater danger than
ever.
Socialist Party Leaders Silent
THE jobless and employed workers,
those who bear the burden of
LaGuardia's economies, will testify
to the truth of the fact that not a
single act of the Fusion administra-
ton has been meant to improve the
conditions of the great masses of
New York. And a great share of the
responsibility for this vicious anti
working-class policy of the Fusion
regime lies with the Socialist Party
leaders: men like B. Charney Via
deck. business manager of the So
cialist Forward" who, as mem
Der of Langdon w. Posts Housing
Commission, plays along with Fu
sion's refusal to relieve the tene-
ment f1re-trap danger by capitulat-
ing to the landlords and real-estate
owners. Men like Panken, who re-
Gently was offered a post as justice
under Fusion; men like Blanshard,
etc. Most important, however, the
New York District of the Socialist
Party has maintained complete off,
cial silence on Fusion's anti-work-
ing-class policies and actions.
The Fusion administration has
been in power for more than six
months. Its record to date Is a
record of unrelenting, hypocritical
attacks on the workers, Of broken
campaign promises, of the most
brutal police terror against work.
ers and jobless, of protection to
bosses and fascists of all breeds,
particularly the Nazis of New
York.
Fusion's record is clearly the rec
ord of a regime which is controlled
body and soul by finance capital
The workers already know what to
expect from LaGusrdia and his
gang. Workers who were fooled by
his promises into voting for him last
fall now know on what side of the
fence LaGuardia is, what his pro
gressivism" means.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-12
CORRECTION

In Comrade Haywood's articles on
the betrayal of George Crawford by
the N. A. A. c. P. leadership and
defense" attorneys, an article in
the Nation of June 81 was errone-
ously attributed to Helen Board
man as sole author. The article
and the Investigations upon which
it was based were the work of Helen
Boardman and Martha Gruening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-12
"NO Reconciliation"
With Bosses Declares
Minneapolis Drirer

BY Truck Driver Correspondent
MINNEAPOLIS. = The strike
situation Of Minneapolis drivers
and helpers is getting serious.
They are going to take a strike
vote tonight "wednesday night
at 8 pm. at East Side Eagles
Hall. Local STA is calling on all
other unions to vote on gerenal
strike. st. Paul drivers are also
voting on strike, also the Duluth
drivers.
The Minneapolis-St. Paul Re-
gional Labor Board was in ses-
sion Friday and Saturday, but
from indications there can be no
terms of reconciliation reached,
as the gap is too wide. Mayor
cambridge of Minneapolis is
threatening to call on Governor
Olson for troops without delay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-12
KnitgoOds Workers Strike

NEW YORK. - Workers Of the
Stiefel and Healy Knitting Mills,
498 Seventh Ave, striking under the
leadership of the Knitgcods Workers
Industrial Union, report that lead
ers Of Local 155 of the I. L. C. w. u.
are sending workers to scab in the
shop. The union appeals to all
members of the I. L. G. w. U. to
refuse to work in the shop and join
with workers of the industrial union
on the picket line.
Chairmen of the Industrial Union
will meet tonight at union head
quarters to take up immediate prob
lens of the trade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-12
CHICAGO WORKERS TO Ale
"DAILY"
(DaiIy worker Midwest Burcau)

tDaIIy WOrker MIdWtst buFraUI
CHICAGO, July Rehabilitation
of Roseland workers to support the
Daily Worker circulation is the pur-
pose of a conference to be held at
BIT E. 115th ST., Wednesday, July 10.
All organizations and readers Of
the Daily Worker are being asked
to attend this conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-12

Start a Daily Worker route to-
day! The growth of our Daily
today spells the results of tomor-
rows struggles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-12
Slurs Over Economy"
Program That Slashed
City Wages

LaGuardia. Yes, but low-paid food
inspectors have been fired, and as
a result the health of the city's
masses is in greater danger than
ever.
The Washington times., 1934-02-07
|NSULL AVOIDED
RECE|VERSH|P

CHICAGO, Feb. 7 QN.SD.-Chi-
cago bankers told Samuel insult,
ST., now a fugitive in Greece, he
would have to be one of the re.
ceivers of his sagging properties
or be entirely out of the picture,
Edward Eagle Brown, executive
vice president of the First Ma.
tional Bank. told Federal Judge
Walter C. Lindley today.
Judge Lindley is conducting a
hearing on possible receivership
frauds in connection with the col
lapse of the vast insult utilities
empire.
insult didn't want to be a re-
ceiver, Brown testified. He
wanted to be general manager
under the receivers.
But, Brown said:
"T whispered in an aside to
Melvin TraylOr, president Of
the First National Bank: IF In
Sull were a receiver, or a CO.
receiver, and under the courts
directions, there could be a full
check up on everything he did
while as a general manager he
would dominate the situation
and 1t would be impossible to
find out what he was dOing.'"
The Washington times., 1934-02-07
More MiIitancy Urged
BY P. o. Clerk Leader

Federal employees will get on
Faster If they display more mill
bancy. according to Aaron Bechtel,
legislative representative of the
National Association Of Substi-
eute Post Office Employees, who
spoke last night before the Com
mittee for Civil Service Rein
statement in Thompson School.
He said that his organization,
By staging a mass demonstration
here, had succeeded in having re-
ported promptly a bill for a
minimum pay Of SIS week. He
said his organization would aid
In bringing about restoration Of
Jobs to economy act victims, and
Q committee was named to ask
an amendment to the independent
offices bill which would require
reinstatement of dismissed work
erS before new ones are taken on.
The Washington times., 1934-02-07
PLANES Of j. 5.
ARMY WEAK
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bombing planes are among the
fastest and best of any nation,
it is claimed that large number
of the Army's planes are obsolete.
Three Lears Late
The information received on the
condition of the air service, which
includes that of experienced flierS,
is said to emphasize criticism Of
high ranking officers who have
retired or resigned from the Army
Air Corps in the past two years.
The Army Air Corps, under the
five-year program adopted lin
1925, called for 1900 fighting
planes by 1881. With a grant
made by the PWA, Army officers
claim that the program will be
fulfilled three years late.
Even this grant, critics have
told the House committee, will
not bring the air corps to the
necessary standard.
Two Bills Up
The committee in public hear
ings will consider two bills by
Chairman McSwain CD of South
Carolina. The latest calls for
an Army air force Of not less
than 4,834 planes-an increase Of
5000 over the present authorized
strength.
It is estimated that more than
200 million dollars would be re-
quired to carry out the program.
Joining in the Aviation InVeSti-
CATION of the Black Senate Com
mittee and the House Naval At
fairs Committee, the Military Com,
mittee plans an audit of the con-
tracts of the last four years let
by the Army Air Corps.
BackerS of a huge air force are
fearful that unfavorable public
sentiment may make more difficult
passage of legislation to bring the
Air Corps to full strength and pro-
vide for future expansion.
The Washington times., 1934-02-07
LIVING COST RISE CITED IN PLEA FOR RETURN OF FULL PA>
News Of
The
World
AUSTRALIA

ABOARD S. s. JACOB RUP.
PERT, ANTARCTTCA, Feb. 6
GN.SJ.-(By Mackay Radio. De
layed)-The Rupert, flagship Of
the Byrd Antarctic expedition,
cleared the Bay Of Whales at
10:46 a. m. today, heading for
New Zealand, leaving the expe-
dition's winter party behind.
The Rupert will go either to
Port Chalmers or Dunedin and
there will be laid up for a year,
returning to Antarctica in De-
cember or January to pick up the
men now left in the frozen
wastes.
The Washington times., 1934-02-07
GOSS PROTESTS
At 'TWO-TH|RD'
RESTORATION
Points to Big Sum Spent to
Boost Costs; Challenges
Government Figures
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delaying the subcommittee meet
ing because Of a leadership at
tempt to use the time during the
interim to break down a move
ment for more liberalization in
the Government salary and vet
erans relief sections of the bill.
He added that his only reason
Cor not calling the meeting is be-
cause he is desirous of getting
some appropriations bills before
the Senate as quickly as possible,
and that the Navy Department
and Interior Department supply
bills can be reported from the
committee quickly whereas the in
dependent offices bill, because Of
its controversial provisions, will
likely be longer in getting out Of
the committee.
After making this explanation
yesterday, Senator Byrnes said he
would have nothing more to say"
about the situation.
Approval Predicted
Although several Of the full
restoration advocates feel that
they believe the present plan to
restore 5 per cent Of the cut now
and another 5 per cent in July
would have the best chance of
approval by the President, others
declare the conviction that the
President would not veto the bill
e it carried 100 per cent salaries.