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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
BY HARRY CANNES
Especial to the Daily Worker)

HARTFORD, Conn, April 16.-A
strike in the typewriter industry,
an industry controlled by capitalists
very close to the Roosevelt govern
ment, doomed here when $500 IN
derwood Elliot Fisher workers, rep
resenting the sentiment Of ma
iority of the 1890 listed on the COM
pany's payrolls, voted to reject the
company's offer Sunday.
This mornings mass picketing was
scheduled at the Pratt and Whitney
Aircraft plant to demonstrate to
the incoming U. S. Department of
Labor strikebreaker, Anna Vein
stock, that the workers mean bust
ness. Most of the 1900 aircraft
workers at Hamilton Propeller and
Pratt and Whitney were expected
to be on the picket lines.
During the past few months there
has been a tremendous surge fol
organization among the workers in
Hartford and surrounding territory
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Workers In MANY
Cities Backing
May Day Unity
May Day Greetings
For Special Edition
Must Be Rushed!

All Party Units. unions, mass
organizations, including branches
of the International Workers
Order, International Labor De-
Tense, Unemployed Councils, are
urged to send their May Day
greetings to the Daily Worker at
once.
There is no time to be lost. Make
sure that your greetings to the
Daily" will appear without fail
in the "a page May Day edition
by sending them in now to the
Daily Worker, so E. 18th ST., New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Tool and Die Makers
Meet to Discuss
Extending Strike
BOSSES ARE BOLDER
Smith Looks TO NRA as
Way of Ditching Strike

Especial TO the Daily WOrker.)
DETROIT, April l6.-The strik-
ing tool end die makers, organized
in the Mechanics Educational So
ciety, will meet tonight i'll meetings
to discuss ways and means how to
and extend their strike.
Local manufacturers who pre-
viously announced their willingness
to grant the demands of the strik-
ers are now backing out. They are
taking comfort in the open an
nouncement of the A. F. Of L. lead
ers following the Pontiac secret
conference outlawing strike strug-
giles for higher wages and shorter
hours.
The main demands of the strik-
ing men are: 20 per cent increase
in wages, the 56-hour week. and
union recognition. The strike in
wolves 81 shops which have re-
fused to grant The demands of the
strikers.
The danger of compulsory arbi-
traitor. lurked from a statement
made by Mathew Smith, general
secretary OF the Mechanics Educa-
tional Society. In a statement pub
lished in today's local press, Smith
stated that THE issue has trans
lated itself into the matter of our
fundamental right to organize I'M
Ger the N.R.A. All the power and
resources of this Society will be
used to insure that the lights given
us under Section TIA are not taken
away"
Smith endorses Section IA,
which now is openly admitted, that
the right to organize" is the right
to force company unions upon the
workers. 1t is this, now infamous,
Section IA Of the N.R.A. which
was used by the auto manufactur-
ers to develop company unions and
break the recent threatened gen.
eral strike in the auto industry.
To indorse Section IA, particu-
larry now while the tool and die
makers are out on strike, opens the
door for arbitration by the Auto
mobile Labor Board, which was Gre
ated by the manufacturers to de-
ceive the workers and to break the
strike struggles for better condi-
tons. Many worker will begin to
ask why Smith made his statement
just at the very moment when
Green and Collins endorsed all &C
tions of the Automobile Labor
Board and outlawed strikes in the
auto industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Aid To Roosevelt Board
Against Surging Strike Demand
Auto Workers Union Nails
AFL Heads NO-Strike Pledge

result of the ever-pressing desire
of the workers to use strike power,
while production goes on, in order
to assert and in order to establish
their unions and check the exploita-
ton in the industry. This no strike
statement is a direct stabbing in the
back Of the strike of the tool and
ole makers and of Michigan Stove.
1t gives a club into the hands of
the companies, the company unions,
the employers and their press to
keep the workers in suppression and
to throttle the strike movement.
The workers can expect nothing
from the Automobile Labor Board.
The first act of the Board was to
bar unionism in the plant. Their
second act was to put over a SELL
out agreement of the Nash work
ers in Wisconsin, which the workers
themselves rejected.
Smith Lauds N.R.A.
TN this connection, the workers
Of the M. E. S. A. must be told
to guard against any policy which
follows in the footsteps of the A.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Offer Coo operation TO
Auto Board at Secret
Pontiac COnfab
GREEN TAKES HAND
Indignation Runs High
in Flint and Pontiac
BY SAM DON
Especial to the Daily Worker

DETROIT, April 16. - The
top officials of the American
Federation Of Labor in the au-
tomobile industry officially
outlawed all strike action in
the industry and pledged full CO.
operation to the strike-breaking
Automobile Labor Board set UP by
President Roosevelt.
This decision was made at a con-
ference held Sunday at Pontiac with
representatives" present from To-
Gals in Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin.
Michigan. The conference was held
behind closed doors.
The action Of the A. F. Of L.
leaders to outlaw strikes in the auto
industry is timed with the present
strike Of the tool and die makers
who are organized into Mechanics
Educational Society. With their
present announcement the A. F. Of
L. leaders also hope to compel the
militant striking tool and die max
ers to submit to the compulsory ar
bit-ation Of the Automobile Labor
Board. The A. F. Of L. leaders are
out to knife the striking tool and
die makers III the back.
This mo strike" edict and the
call for submission to compulsory
arbitration is the answer Of the
A. F. Of L. leadership to the in
sistent demand for struggle coming
from the rank and file from the
newly-organizcd A. F. of L. locals.
Green Wires Conference
VIM. Green, who signed the open
shop merit clause" in the auto code
sent special wire to the confer
ence. He urged the complete &C
of the decisions Of the
Automobile Labor Beard and to
discourage" any strike sentiment
and action in the auto industry.
Green in his telegram urged the
workers TO keep their feet on the
ground while the Board is working
cut it's problems"
William Collins, Detroit A. F. of
L. auto organizer, the man, who in
close collaboration with the open
shop auto manufacturers and Rose
welt called off the general strike,
again pleaded that the automobile
workers should be patient" The
endorsed the Green tele-
gram and the strike-breaking plea
fo- patience made by Collins
The rank and file is becoming in
creasingly dissatisfied with the
Automobile Labor Board. The mem
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Strike of 1900 Underwood
Typewriter Cow orkers Looms

1t is clear the workers are on the
offensive, driving ahead despite all
obstacles. The Connecticut Manu-
facturers Association is girding its
forces in an effort to smash the
rapid unionization going on, sweep
ing the war industries and the
plants counted as Al on the War
Department lists as available for
immediate transformation into war
producing factories.
Underwood Men Want Action
The Underwood workers came to
the Sunday meeting at Governors
Foot Guard Hall expecting to hear
he setting of a strike date. But
the leadership, which has the con-
fidence Of the men, being composed
entirely of factory workers, has en-
meshed itself in a maze of promises
and maneuvers of the N. R. A.
"A let of young fellows here are
shouting for strike said Chairman
John Orfetelli OF the shop commit
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
No Trace Of Labor
Defense Organizer
Kidnapped by XXX
Link Authorities to the
Attack on Frank
Norman

LAKELAND, Fla, April 16.-No
trace has yet been found of Frank
Norman, International Labor De-
Tense organizer here and former
leader of the Citrus Workers Union,
who was kidnapped by Ku Klux
Khan thugs Wednesday night.
Further details of the kidnap-
ping revealed today showed the
definite link between the kidnap-
pers and local authorities.
The kidnap gang which called at
Norman's home stated they were
Sheriff w. w. Chase and deputies,
and ordered him to come with
them to identify a Negro they said
had been lynched on the Barlow
Rd. They took with them also Ben
Surrency, a worker living in the
same house, but released him be-
fore leaving town, training their
pistols on him and ordering him to
run.
The car bearing the kidnappers
proceeded up the road, and Sur
rency has reported that he heard
shot from it before it got out of
ear-shot.
Norman had been very active in
organizing protest against the MUIR
der of James Franklin, Negro citrus
picker, by police and local land
lord, in Polk County.
Sheriff Chase, who has denied he
was one of the kidnappers, is con-
centrsting on making statements to
the effect that he is looking very
hard - ff7saap and his kidnap-
pers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Strikes Shut Ala. Coal
Fields; Spread to Glove,
Rayon Plants, Street Cars
Viscose Co Orders Out
the Police, Deputies
Against Strikers

LEWISTON, Pa.-Superintendent
Tompkins of the Viscose Co., where
$4,000 workers are on strike, ordered
chief of the company police, Robert
Schell, to drive away strike pickets
in front of the plant. Special dep
uties were hurriedly sworn in by
Sheriff Charles c. Duck, but they
failed to terrorize the strikers.
The strike started at the Lewis
ton plant, and spread to Marcus
Hook, Pa, and other plants. This
morning the acetate yarn unit in
Meadville, Pa. struck. The strike is
under the leadership of the United
Textile Workers Union. Workers at
Parkersburgh, W. Va. voted to join
the strike, but William F. Kelly,
union leader, declared he was given
authority whether to call the strike
or not.
Strike sentiment is rising at the
Tubize Chatillon Corporation, and
at the knitting plant at Hopewell,
Va, involving 1900 workers. They
charge union members have been
Disseminated against.
Viscose Company officials are
threatening the workers that the
plant will be closed down indefinite
ly if they do not return to work in
three days.
The strike started when the COM
pany changed the lunch period at
the soda plant. The workers were
forced to eat their lunch in relays
in order to keep up the speed-up in
the plant. The workers demand the
old lunch schedule and an end Of
the stretch-out system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Cuban folders Fire
on Demonstration for
Freedom of Prisoners

HAVANA, April 16-Soldiers fired
on demonstration of several hun
dred students who assembled before
the palace of President Mendieta,
demanding the freedom of $50
POLITICAL prisoners who are on hun
ger strike.
Some of the hunger strikers have
BEEN on strike for more than a
week, and 20 in Castillo Principe
Havana, are reported near death.
The students also demonstrated in
front of the German Consulate,
where a swastika flag was flying.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Nepvs Flash

BUFFALO, n. Y, April 49,
Two thou-and striking airplane
workers CT the Curtiss Plant de-
tended themselves valiantl-
when police late this afternos
attacked their picket line aroy I'd
the plant to let several TT <cks
filed with scabs leay' the
grounds.
Two workers were arrested.
The workers and their sympa-
thizers had gathered Is minutes
before the scabs we're scheduled to
leave the plant
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Illinois Miners and CWA
Workers Unite inDen1G1ad
For Jobs and Cash Relief
Rochester ReliefStrikers
Hold Mass Meeting;
Demand CWA Pay

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, April 10
Five hundred jobless workers who
demonstrated here Friday against
relief cuts were met by tear gas and
guns and 100 police and special
deputies
The demonstration under the
leadership of the Unemployment
Councils, was called to protest
against the forced labor work re-
lief" scheme, and to demand that
the Relief Commission live up to
its promises to raise the relief
budget, and to provide relief to
single unemployed workers.
A number of local unions of the
P. M. A. and the A. F. of L. sup
ported the demands of the jobleSs,
and hundreds of blacklisted miners
joined the demonstration.
AS the workers opened the meet
ing, deputy sheriffs attacked the
workers and seized Ann Morton and
Roy Jones, of the Unemployment
Councils.
At a mass meeting held at the
Workers Center an unemployed
worker, one of the deputies sworn
in by the sheriff, told the assem-
bled workers how he accepted the job
for the dirty work Of attacking the
workers. He asked the workers to
forgive him and he would turn in
his badge, join the Council, and
contribute the money which he had
received to the Council for carry
ing on further struggle.
700 Strike In Hamtramck, Mich.
DETROIT, Mich.-More than 700
former c. w. A. workers of Ham
tramck, led by the Relief Workers
Protective Association, are now on
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Birmingham Work ers
for Scottsboro Boys
FINAL MEET SUNDAY
Detroit, Chicago Work
ers Fight Police Ban
BIRMINGHAM. Ala, Apr

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April
16. - Directly beneath the
barred windows of the cells
where the Scottsboro boys lie,
the workers of Birmingham
will gather on May Day in the first
open demonstration to be held here
in a year.
Capitol Park, on whose steps the
May demonstration will take
place, is bounded on one side by
the tall white structure of the JEFF
ferscn County jail On the top floor
Of this Jail, are imprisoned seven of
the Scottsboro boys. For several
weeks now these boys have suf-
fered the tortures of solitary con-
flnement-part of the never lending
effort of the jailers to break their
spirit and even to kill them off By
abuse and mistreatment before
they can be tried again. If the de-
mand of the workers. that these
boys be taken out Of solitary, can be
speedily gained, the Scottsboro
boys will be able to look down on
the greatest mass demonstration of
working-class power that Alabama
has yet seen. They viii be able to
hear clearly the shouts of the as
sembled workers, white and black:
set the Scottsboro boys free!"
The May Day demonstration in
Birmingham is a sign of the
growing pcwar of the revolution
airy movement here, in spite of
constant arrests, terror and re-
precision. For the first time, work.
ers from the largest mines, mills
and factories = particularly the
all-important plants Of the pow
erful U. S. Steel subsidiary, the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail-
read Co.--sre modifying for a
militant working class demon
Stration.
Unlike previous occasions, the
City Council has not dared refuse
a permit outright, but has answered
the demand of the May Day Com
mittee for a permit with request
for time to think it over But the
Birmingham workers will meet at
goth st. and Seventh Ave. N, at
pm May /, for a show of work
ing-class power, and they are de-
termined to go through with it, per-
nit or no permit.
Final Cleveland Conference Sunday
CLEVELAND, Ohio, April TO-
The final May Day United Front
Conference will be held next Sun
day, 10 am, at the Workers School
1924 Prospect Ave.
The May Day United Front Com
mittee of Action has issued an ap-
peal to all organizations not repre-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
2 NEW JUSTIFICATION CASES
REPORTED

NEW YORK.-Two new cases of
ossifcation malady were reported
by physicians today, as pair of
Philadelphia twins, Katherine and
Margaret Mcguire contracted the
disease that slowly turns the limbs
to stone. Theodore Alosio, four
years old, died yesterday from this
disease in Christ Hospital, Jersey
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Men in Berlin
Plants Fight
For Thalnann
Mass Open-Air Meeting
in New York City for
Thursday Night

NEW YORK. - An open-air
mass meeting in defense of Ernst
ThaeImann, imprisoned and tor
tured leader of the German Com
munist Party, will be held at
pm. Thursday night on seth St.,
between Lexington and Third
AYES, in the heart of the section
of New York claimed by the Ma
zis. The meeting is called by the
Anti-Fascist Action, united
front of organizations with ma
tionaI membership of 100000.
BERLIN, April l CBy MaiD In
spite of the terror dominating Hit
Ter Germany, the revolutionary
workers distributed among tn {
workers employed by the firms OF
Borsig, and Genera
Co. Henningsdorf, leaf1et
with the following appeal:
Form Thaelmann Committees!
"Shot while attempting to escape
This empty preteXt is still spread
abroad by the fascist press. We
know very we'll how in January 1915
Karl Liebknecht was shot whilst
attempting to escape He was driver
into the Tiergarten. forced with
blows to alight from the car, lei
go a short distance, and shot dowr
from behind.
I'm the same way four Commu.
nists we're recently murdered: Johr
Scheer, Steinfurth, Schwarz, anc
Schoenhaar. Workers! Put an enc
to these murders, organize mass re.
sistance!
THE Thaelmann Committee calls
Thaelmann, the leader of the Ger.
man working class, and hundreds o.
fCOntiuUeA mn PINE ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Report l,5OO Killed in
Major Chaco Battle

LA PAZ, Bolivia, April 16.-The
Bolivian government claimed that
1900 Paraguayan troops were killed
in a major battle for Fort Ballivian,
a strategic point in southwest Chaco.
Bolivia reported having repulsed
a Paraguayan advance. The Para
guayan government said its troops
advanced six miles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
MINI. City Council
Backs Down on Its
Promise to JOblesS
Votes for Forced Labor:
Buys Additional
Tear Gas

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, April 10
One week after the demonstration
of 10000 jobless workers forced the
City Council to endorse all the de-
mands of the unemployed and fired
c. w. A. workers, the city politicians
came together and repudiated their
promises. On April 6, they voted
to condemn the r. w. A. forced
labor schemes, and on April Is they
voted funds with which to carry it
on. In an attempt to force this
starvation scheme down the threats
of the militant Minneapolis jobless,
they voted $500 to buy more tear gas
and additional funds for q gross of
long nightsticks for the police.
Council Unanimous Against
Workers
This about face was made by the
City Council without a dissenting
vote. While three of the Farmer
Labor aldermen were in Washing
ton, the other Farmer-Labor alder
men, Peterson, Miller, Gisslen, etc,
voted the measure. This action is
in line with the statement of
Farmer-Labor Governor Floyd B.
Olsen that he favors justice taking
its course" thereby placing his ap-
proval on the clubbing of the work
ers, and starvation for the unem-
ployed.
Chamber of Commerce Cracks
Whip
The sudden change In the action
Of the City Council was dictated by
session of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce and Realtors held on the
previous night, where the chairman
of the relief board, Joseph, appealed
for help, and, of course, received
full support.
They elected a committee Of three
to organize the better class of
citizens" behind the city government
and the chief of police, whom the
jobless and C. w. A. workers want
impeached. The Farmer-Labor al
dermen acted on the instructions
received from the Chamber Of Com
merce.
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Kept Alive by Football Bladder

LONDON, April 16-A football
bladder strapped to his chest has
kept an almost completely paralyzed
patient, S. Crosby Halahan, SO,
breathing continuously for the past
six months, according to a report
in the current issue of the Lancet"
medical journal published here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
$500 Shenandoah Coal
Miners Strike TO Enforce
Wage Agreements

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 10
Effective mass picRetlng resulted in
the shutting down Of four mines
of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co.,
adding $500 to the $4,000 on strike
here. A clash took place between
strikers and scabs and two men
we're hurt.
AS the $500 men walked out,
Sheriff j. F. Hawkins immediately
swore in 100 special deputy gun
thugs to patrol the area.
With the closing down of the
mines in Docena, Hamilton, Edge
water and Wylam, the strike Of the
miners at the Tennessee Coal and
Iron Co. is now made effective. The
bosses fear the strike will spread to
the steel mills.
SHENANDOAH. Pa, April 10
Over $500 anthracite miners in
three collerieS of the Shenandoah
district struck today, They declared
that the Philadelphia Reading Coal
and Iron Company was not living
up to the wage agreement. The
miners demand that machine miners
be paid as much as other miners.
Omaha Street Car Strike
OMAHA, Neb., April 16.-The
street car system Of this city was
completely shut down today when
workers on the Omaha and Council
Bluffs Street Railway Company
struck today.
The workers demand recognition
of their union, reinstatement of 10
discharged for union activity, and
a to 20 cent an hour increase.
Tie Up 200 Gloversville Plants
GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y, April l6.
An effective shutdown of 200
glove plants in Fulton County was
brought about when 5000 workers
walked out on strike.
The strike originated when the
bosses refused to grant the workers
demanded increases in wages.
Strike representatives are to meet
the bosses today to negotiate the
workers demands.
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CIRCULATION DRIVE
NEW SUBS RECEIVED APRIL IA and 1s.
Daily ......... 81 Saturday ...... So
Total 10 date 5,426 Total .....24zz
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