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The daily worker., 1934-06-19
Paterson Relief
Strikers To March;
Mass Meets Today
HawthOrne Men Join As
Strikes Spread In
New Jersey

PATERSON, N. J,-PreparationS
are going forward here for a city
wide demonstration of relief strik-
ers and unemployed workers in
support Of the workers who struck
five projects here two weeks ago
demanding an end to the forced
labor scheme. The march will
begin at l am. today at Totowa
Oval, near West Side Park and
proceed to Harrison and Summer
Sts., where a mass meeting with
speakers from reach Of the projects
will speak.
Yesterday 300 strikers marched
on one of the projects and threw
a mass picket line around the job
where the city had placed so at
work in the morning. This has
been, so far, the only attempt the
city had made to start work on
the struck projects All the work
ers came off the project with the
strikers.
Workers on the relief jobs at
Hawthorne, New Jersey, yesterday
Joined the strike and will march
in the demonstration at Paterson
today, To date, workers are out
in Paterson, Passaic, Clifton,
Elizabeth, Perth Amboy, Belleville,
Hawthorne, Newark, Camden, and
efforts are being made to spread
the strikes to every project in the
state.
The forced labor scheme was
adopted on June 4 by the state
relief commission, forcing every
worker on relief to work five con-
secutive 2-hour days-40 hours a
month for 81 plus grocery order,
In Paterson yesterday, two work
ers, Al Goldberg, young unem-
ployed worker, and Rose Rosen
were Jailed for distributing leaf
lets announcing the demonstration
and mass meeting. They are being
held in bail of $50 each and efforts
are being made to raise the bail.
A statewide conference to con-
solidate the strike and enlist mass
support will be held on Saturday.
The time and place will be de-
termined and announced at the
mass meeting.
The daily worker., 1934-06-19

of the enemy class front. The employers main
effort was to kill the general strike which had
already become too alarming and was clearly going
beyond all the original purposes of the A. F. of L.
officials. To fatty say NO general strike" would
isolate them completely from the workers There
fore the strategy to create an atmosphere that
things were being settled in favor of the workers
Rush through sell-out settlements under high
pressure of Roosevelt, Governor White Bill Green,
Ramsey and Myers, in the Auto-Lite and Elec-
tricians strike, and turn the big mass meeting and
parade, under artihcially stimulated rah-rah
sentiment into a fraudulent victory" parade While
doing this, bring into action all other forces of
the government to at least postpone action if the
first tactic didn't work out successfully (Our evau-
alton of this strategy was borne out 100 per cent?
They started carrying through this strategy by
a newspaper barrage of Encouragement of general
strike. John Love- the Scrpps- Howard financial
columnist, wrote several articles pointing out the
alleged failures of all general strikes The News
Bee the Scripps- Howard paper wrote an editorial
stating in part
1--WE have idea that the labor leaders have
stomach for strike which would tie ND the
power of the city. 1t has too much the earmarks
of the beginning of the threatened general strike
Certainly the responsible labor leaders are fully
aware of the terrific consequences of a general
strike and are becoming increasingly alert to
of avoiding it,"
Governor White stepped into the situation and
promised early settlement. The newspapers carried
large headlines fraudulently claiming that the Ma
tional Guard being withdrawn Ramsey kept
announcing new plans for satisfactory settlement
of the strike. VIM. Green and all the International
Boards rushed special representatives to Toledo to
remind the workers that they couldn't strike with
out tie consent of the International. The News
Bee under the skillful hand of Haywood Broun,
wrote key front page editorial at the moment
when victory for the Auto-Lite strikers was only
to be clinched by the workers through continued
militant action, rejection of all arbitration, and
preparations for general strike headed Victory
for No Side" which meant defeat for the workers
Federal Strike Breaking
The second phase of the strategy was then
undertaken energetcally. Proposals were made by
Chas. Taft I'd, Federal Mediator, which stated in
part the following;
This agreement is entered into this 25th day
The daily worker., 1934-06-19
By JOHN WILLIAMSON

of May, 1884, with the United States Department
of Labor by the Electric Auto-Lite Company for
the purpose of terminating the present difficulties
as existing at the plant of the said company.
II The company understands that all pickets
will be withdrawn and all interference with its
employees and its plant at terminated.
q With that accomplished the company
agrees to submit to the automobile labor board for
arbitration all questions in dispute In the present
labor controversy whose decisions on all points
shall be final and binding all parties
81 It is agreed that the plant shall be kept
in operation but that no employees not on
the payroll shall be hired pending the decision
of the Automobile Labor Board
A. The Automobile Labor Board is to hear
the during the week of May 2Sth, 1884, and
its decision is to be rendered within week
from date of termination Of hearing.
s. If any question of the Interpretation of
this agreement arises, the Interpretation of Charles
p Taft special representative of the United States
Department of Labor shall be final"
This was rejected by the strikers. For two days
the papers carried headlines "Auto-Lte Settlement
Near-Ramsey Hopeful-Strikers Will Vote Tonight
Plant Definitely Opens Tuesday" etc. A special
strikers meeting was called to try to put over the
grand sell-out.
THE Communist fraction in the Unemployment
Council and Auto Workers Union got these
organizations to issue stirring leaflet warning the
workers of such se-outs and calling for continued
mass picketing and holding of ranks solid This
leaflet, plus copy of the special Toledo edition
of the Daily Worker was in the hands of every
striker at that meeting. They were read and dis
cussed while the meeting waited for the conferees
to come and report. One worker got up on the
stage and held up the Daily Worker and there
were cheers from hundreds of workers When
Ramsey and the others came, they sized up the
moods of the workers cat which Ramsey is very
clever and seeing leaflets and Daily Workers every
where decided it impossible to put over the
sell-out Instead he said that the proposals under
consideration called for: Cd per cent wage in
crease; ~ immediate opening of the plant; (3)
re-hirng of scabs first a. then re-hring of stik-
ers as they were needed at the discretion of the
company; CD company would deal with union on
basis of those workers prior to February who be-
The daily worker., 1934-06-19

from the open statements in
the Gary Post Tribune and
Hammond Times, steel trust papers,
that so Pullman cars have been
drawn into the yards to house scabs
and that 100 guards in uniform are
on constant duty in the mill. These
guards are hired through the Calu-
met Protective Association, headed
by q Mr.. Maloney. This same out
fit was used to break the strike of
Standard Forgings workers last Oc-
tober. The Inland workers claim
that there are at least 500 of these
guards inside the mill.
In spite of this terror, $50 IN
land clippers carried through a
fight for higher wages during the
early part of last week. This fight
was led by members of the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial
Union, who called upon the work
ers to stop work until their de-
The daily worker., 1934-06-19
ARTICLE III.

ARTICLE III.
IN THE period of the mass battles around
Auto Lite, the workers took up the
slogan for a general strike. Out of 103
locals affiliated to the Central Labor
Unions, 83 had voted for general strike
by June 1.
The key to the situation was the pending
strike of the Electrical Workers local, composed
primarily of power men employed by the Toledo
Edison Company. Their going strike would have
Immediately paralyzed all industry depending upon
power and light and would have galvanized the
whole general strike sentiment The local takers,
seeing the swing of things put themselves at the
head of the general strike sentiment, as described
previously, and set June l as the day of mass
rally to act upon the demand for general strike
They of course figured at that time that the
Auto-Lite strike would be settled before June 1st
and by this empty gesture they would also execute
q clever left maneuver. During the entire time
Of the mass battles, all other local strikes were
Systematically delayed by the Central Labor Union
leaders.
Strikers Reject SelI-Outs
AS the efforts to sell out the Auto-Lite strikers
were Systematically rejected by the militant mood
of the strikers the date of June 1st approached
Win the workers prepared for general strike all
attention of the employers, the government, the
arbtrators and American Federation of Labor Off
cials turned to this problem. There was a definite
sharp lineup in the situation. On the one side
were the workers who we're either on strike at
Auto-Lite or had voted for general strike and the
Communists and Unemployed Council members On
the other side were the employers arbtrators gov
ernment militia, A. F. of l.. officials including the
left phrasemongers Ramsey and Myers the So
ciast Party, and trailing along at their tail end
the Musteites The first demanded immediate gen.
ersl strike and arbitration of the Auto-Lite
strike situation. The second had one common pur-
pose-to avoid general strike at all costs.
THE Communists evaluated the situation at that
moment quite accurately as regards the strategy
The daily worker., 1934-06-19
Impending Steel Strike
Demands Winning
of Youth

The st. Louis delegates told the
story of the Nut-Pickers' Strike, its
successes and its weak points, ex-
planning how the strike had been
instrumental in bringing in youth
to the Y. G. l. Chicago youth,
from the packing houses and the
stock yards. needle trades and those
active in the fight for Negro rights
and Young Pioneer work added
their reports to the convention.
While the convention showed to
a certain extent the growth of the
League and the prestige of the
League among the masses of youth,
the complete expression of the con-
vention was dissatisfaction with
the tempo of the work of the Y.C.L.
in comparison to the deepening of
the crisis, as expressed by most of
the delegates. The convention was
not merely a reporting of activities
and manufacture of paper resolu-
tions, but a point of orientation of
our work, intensified manifold, so
that by the next convention we can
report firm grasp on an ever
broadening strata of the working
youth of this industrial area
through a mass Young Communist
League and affiliated youth organ
izations,
A new District Executive Com
mittee was elected and delegates
were elected to the National CA =
vention. It was decided to send @
telegram in the name of the Y.CL.
to the representative of the Hitler
government in the United States
demanding the release Of the heroic
Communist leader. Ernst Thael-
mann, and also a telegram Of greet
ings to the underground Y, G. L. in
Germany.
The daily worker., 1934-06-19

mands we're granted. The men
threw down their hammers and
refused to go to work until the
company met with a committee
elected by them and negotiated a
settlement.
On the first occasion, the COM
pany promised to pay more money
after stoppage of As minutes. The
men went back to work, but when
pay day came, on the 18th of June,
they found they had been gypped.
They again refused to go to work
and sent their committee to the
company. The company was forced
to grant back pay for one month.
Two weeks back pay has already
been received by the men and the
company has promised to pay the
rest. The men have now forced the
company to promise the elimination
of the tonnage system, which has
been constant source of speed-up
and of gypping the men, and to in
crease their wages from 52la cents
per hour to flat rate Of IS cents
per hour.
The daily worker., 1934-06-19
GAINES TO COVER Y. C. L. NATIONAL
CONVENTION

Harry Cannes veteran staff writer of the Daily will
cover the National Convention Of the
convene from June % to 26 City
was National Secretary Of the Young Communist the
period Of its birth formation comprehensive
understanding of the problems revolutionary
and specially qualified the
vivid dsy-to-day account Of this historic gathering
Readers and especially urged special
bundles and follow closely the events through
pages of the Daily Worker, starting Monday, 25th
The daily worker., 1934-06-19

? This threat held over the
heads of relief workers on
strike throughout the state means
that all relief will be denied to IN.
employed workers who dare to take
action against the hunger and star
vation relief rates, and will be used
as a threat to drive the strikers back
to work.
In line with this order from Cam.
den, the Newark Evening News. in
an editorial Protest from Relief
Ranks" has taken the cue from the
New York police for a vicious at
tack on the jobless. After calling
the workers ignorant 1t warns
that "agitators are capable Of
stirring up lot Of trouble. They
should be combatted strenuously."
But the News cannot hide the
economic cause Of this trouble"
the food orders are everything they
get beyond few pennies that now
and then they scratch together"
In most Of the largest industrial
centers relief cases took a large
jump between the months Of April
and May, The twenty-seven largest
cities show that relief cases Jumped
from 286,631 in the latter part Of
April to 320,359 in the corresponding
period of May.
For the state as q whole, during
May the persons on relief were more
than in the history Of the state, with
492,458 persons on the relief rolls,
-
JobeSs Demonstrate in Lincoln
LINCOLN, Neb.-Presenting an
eight-point program of demands and
grievances, $50 workers, at the call
OF the workers Unemployment
Council, demonstrated at the relief
headquarters here on June 1S.
The demands include. Immedi.
ate fun return of F. z. r. A. work
with minimum of 45 hours month
~ for single men and 96 for married
men at union wages in no case less
than so cents an hour; immediate
cash relief and payment of rents,
lights, fuel and clothing; and i'm
mediate enactment Of the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill Oh.
r. 759S).
When County Relief Director
Bradshaw refused to give an an
swer to the unemployed demands.
the assembled workers voted to re-
turn on the following week.
Draft East st. Louis Program
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill.-Three
hundred unemployed workers. at an
open hearing on relief called by the
Federation of Unemployed here,
elected a committee of IS to draft
a program of action on the workers
demands. The demands include:
% Fifty per cent increase in re-
lief; ~ enactment of the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill ~.
r. 1888; % no discrimination
against Negro workers: "a no
forced labor, full union rates on all
relief work.
A mass meeting was called for
July l at the City Hall when the
committee will present draft or
dinance for relief. At this meeting
delegates will be elected to the I'm
employment Council conference to
be held in Springfield on July IA
and Is.
The daily worker., 1934-06-19
Negro LiberatOr"
Meet of 300 Hailed
By Hughes OfLSNR

NEW RK-Three hundred
workers and intellectuals at the
Negro Liberator Conference in Har-
lem, Saturday, came to give their
support to increase the circulation
and influence of the Negro LIBERIA
tor, organ of the League Of Struggle
for Negro Rights. Included in the
300 we're 100 delegates sent by
branches Of organizations ranging
in breadth Of opinion from that Of
the Communist Party to church or
ganizations.
Langston Hughes. president Of
the L. S. N. R., sent the following
telegram:
AT this historic moment, when
the deep South awakens to the
breaking Of its own chains, let the
Negro Liberator become the deaf
ening voice Of Negro might. We
were freed by others. Today, let us
free ourselves"
Merrill c. Work, business man
ager; Harry Haywood, national sec
retary Of the L. S. N. R, and Her
man MacKawain, local L. S N. R..
leader, were the speakers.
Members of the cast of "Steve-
dore" will entertain guests of the
Negro Liberator" in welcoming
Benjamin j. Davis. new editor-in-
chief, at Lido Hall. 146th st. and
Seventh Ave, on Sunday evening,
June "a.
Earl BroWder, William l.. Patter-
son, James w. Ford, Countee Cul-
len, and many others, will greet
Davis at this banquet arranged for
the day of his arrival.
The daily worker., 1934-06-19
Steel Union Wins
In Indiana HarbOr

INDIANA HARBOR, Ind, June
18.-Workers of the American Steel
Foundries forced the company to
agree to give each worker one
weeks vacation with pay. The
fight for vacations with pay was led
by the Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union local of the plant.
The demands of the union, which
included the six main demands of
the union, were presented to the
company on May 81. On June IL
the company posted notices around
the mill stating that the vacation
demand would be granted.
The daily worker., 1934-06-19
Steel W Orkers Win
Victories in Two
Mills in Indiana
Indiana HarbOr Workers Force Vacations With
Pay, Led by S.M.WLU.; indianapolis Men
Vote to March to Washington

GARY, Ind. June 18In spite of the fact that the In
land Steel Company at Indiana Harbor is armng to the
teeth against any possible strike the workers in the mill
are carrying struggles and winning them The extent
that the Inland Steel Company is preparing judged
The daily worker., 1934-06-19
Strike Sentiment Strong
In Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, June 18-
Steel workers, prepare for actionl"
is the slogan raised in a lesflet dis
tributed to the workers of the
Chapman-Price Steel Company here
by the Communist Party.
The Communist Party, through
the leaflet, pledged its support to
the Forthcoming struggle in the
steel industry and warned the work
ers against the maneuvers of the
Tighe leadership and the proposed
government compulsory arbitration
board.
Sentiment for strike Is quite
strong in the Cross Roads of Amer
lea Lodge of the A. A. Chapman
Price,. One of the resolutions re-
Gently adopted calls for the organ
izstion of a steel workers march to
Washington to demand that the
six-point program be carried out.
The daily worker., 1934-06-19
STRIKE AGAINST PAY CUT

LIMOGES, France. June 1S.-
Twenty-Five factories we're closed
here today when workers struck
against an order establishing 10 per
cent wage cut in the porcelain in
duStrV.
The daily worker., 1934-06-19
Starvation Threat Is
Used to Drive Forced
Labor on NJ. Jobless
Case Loads Soar Throughout State; Relief Lists
In Industrial States Mount Steadily;
Strikes Spread
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEWARK, N. Work go hungry With thesv
words j. Day. acting director of Camden County Relief,
opened the attack upon the striking relief workers of Cam.
den who struck the jobs against the forced labor ten.
cent hour ruling Of the Emergency Relief Administration
The daily worker., 1934-06-19
(CIassified)

sUBLET July-August, modern one-roonn
furnished apartment. Kitchenette, friTid-
aire s23 month. Call to pm.
Popkin, Apt 4C 425 East sth ST.
The daily worker., 1934-06-19
Printers Strike
In Rome. n. Y.
Nv a Worker Corresnondcnt

BY Worker Correspondent
ROME, N. Y, June 1s.-Nineteen
members of the Typographical
Union have been striking at the
Sentinel, local paper, since the
first week in May for union recog-
milton and increases in wages.
The daily worker., 1934-06-19
THE GREAT TOLEDO STRIKE

This is the third of a series of articles
for the Daily Worker. This will be followed by
more detailed article in the July COMNIUNIST)
Evening star., 1934-05-15
NET FOUR PICKED
To PLAY CANADA
Shields, Lott, Stoefen and
Van Ryn Compose First
Round Cup Team.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PresS.
"a yEW YORK, May 15.-Frank
M Shields, George Lott. John
Y van Ryn and Lester
Stoefen will represent the
United States against Canada
in their first-round Davis Cup
tennis contest at the Whining
ton, Del, Country Club, May "a,
Is and 26.
Shields and Stoefen, the only new
conner to Davis Cup play. probably
will handle the singles assignments
against the Canadians while Lott and
Van Ryn take over doubles duty.
Neither Sidney B. Wood nor Wilmer
Allison. the other two members Of the
cup squad asked to report for train
ing under the direction of Capt.
R. Norris williams at Philadelphia,
were considered for the first round of
play. Wood has played no tourna-
ment tennis this Spring and Allison
is suffering from a sprained ankle.
1t was to fill In for Allison that
Van Ryn reconsidered his decision not
to play Davis Cup tennis this year.
The winner Of the United States
Canada matches will meet Mexico at
Baltimore May 30, 81 and June 2 in
the American zone finals. The ulti-
mate survivor then will meet the
European champions in the interzone
final at Wimbledon.
Evening star., 1934-05-15
U. S. GIRL KEEPS UP
SENSATIONAL GOLF
Grace Amory, 10, Reaches Last
16 in Britain-Practice Be-
fore Match Draws Fire.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DoRTHcAwL. Wales. May IS
/ Nineteen-year-old Grace Amory
of New York and West Palm
Beach, Fla, today continued her SEN
sational advance in the British wom-
ems golf championship by defeating
Vivien Bramwell, Bristol girl. and
2, in the second round.
The victory puts Miss Amory. little
regarded after her qualifying score OF
l73, into the last l6.
Miss Amory was out In 40, to oe
2 up, and closed out the match
against Miss Bramwell, several times
champion of Gloucester, on the SIX
teenth green. where each took B.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Amory. her
parents, were in the gallery follow
ing the match.
Considerable criticism was heard
because Miss Amory brought Charles
Gordon, professional, along to coach
her and practiced under his direction
lust before the match. It Is under
stood the matter will be brought to
the attention of the Ladies Golf
Union
Evening star., 1934-05-15
Mackenzie, Ending Test Today,
Joins Shorey in Making Open

of the local pros, three-putting him
self out of a chance for the national
for the second consecutive year.
The main drama of the sectional
trials, centered around that tree
bordered lakeside course at Richmond.
where, surprisingly enough. Darrell
Napier, the long. loose -jointed as
sistant to Bobby Cruickshank at the
Country Club of Virginia, led the
field with scores of 70-73-143. And
at the end of the long afternoon in
came Houghton. Shorey and Cruick-
shank himself, deadlocked for the last
two places with cards of 148. They
played the first hole and 1t looked
as If Houghton was a sure thing to
win when he laid his third shot two
feet from the hole, with both Shorey
and Cruickshank bunkered on their
second. But Shorey blasted one out
of the sand stone dead and Cruick-
shanks almost holed from the trap,
halving the hole in As.
Evening star., 1934-05-15
BOX FOR TRADE BOARD
Boys to Provide Five Bouts at
Bay Ridge Saturday.

Boys to Provide Five Bouts at
Bay Ridge Saturday.
Boxers of the Northeast Boys Club
and the Merrick Boys Club will face
in five bouts that will be feature of
the entertainment program at the an
nual Washington Board Of Trade
shad bake Saturday at Bay Ridge,
Md.
Northeast Club boxers listed to per-
form are Sammy Fusco 9O-pound
class; Pat Cecchini, 110 pounds;
Whitley France and Harry Dom, 1875,
and Paul Dorhman or Joe Brown. 1875.
Merrick Club battlers will be Pres
ton Drew, 80: Douglas Gillard, ITO;
Billy Kemp and Mike Morton, 126,
and Bob Mathaise, 1875.
A silver cup will go to the winning
team and a bronze medal to each
contestant.
Following the boxing there will be
wrestling matches under supervision
of Joe Turner.
There also will be a golf tourna-
ment, base ball game, tennis matches
and a trapshooting contest for Board
of Trade members, with prizes offered
the winners. C. Hayward Marshall
is chairman of the Entertainment
Committee.