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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Alabama Jury Whiteuasl'es
Scottsboro Boys Iorturers

BIR MIN G HAM, April 15.-
Alarmed by indignant protests from
every part of the country against
the torture being inflicted on the
Scottsboro boys held in his Gus ody,
Sheriff Hawkins of Jefferson
County birmingham Saturday
called for and received whitewash
from the county grand jury.
simultaneously it was announced
that a demonstration will be called
in Birmingham on May Day in
Jim-Crow Capitol Park, immedi-
ately under the windows of Jeffer-
son County Jail, where the boys are
now held in solitary confinement.
The demonstration will demand the
freedom of the Scottsboro boys.
Workers Organizing Real
Investigation
The Birmingham district of the
International Labor Defense mean
while is arranging for an exhaustive
inves igation into the present tor
ture of the Scottsboro boys, by
wide committee of black and white
workers and liberals. Evidence Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
1900 Toledo Auto
Strikers Demand
Increase
1000 Wheel Workers,
Line Men and Dry
Cleaners Out

TOLEDO, April 1.-Two thou
and militant and enthusiastic auto
workers of the Bingham Stamping
Co. and the Electric Auto-Lite Co..
manufacturers of auto parts. are
again on the march, striking for
union recognition, a 20 per cent in
crease in pay and seniority rights.
The strikes in both plants are an
aftermath of the fake settlement
made by Thomas Ramsey. dapper
leader of the Automotive Workers
Federal Union, A. F. of L., and
Charles Dana, millionaire owner Of
the Spicer Manufacturing Co, when
1000 auto workers were on strike
here during the last week of Feb
ruary.
At the present time over 1000
Juvenile Metal wheel workers are
on strike in Toledo, workers in the
dry cleaning industry are declaring
a strike on nine plants, and the
linemen of the Toledo Edison Co.,
the electric poyer company supply
ing light and power for North
western Ohio, are planning to
strike.
The Auto Workers Union is now
preparing a leaflet for the s rikers,
in which it will call on the workers
to form : real rank and file strike
committee, build mass picket lines
and set up one United Action of all
automobile workers in the industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16

the pact between the national lead
ership of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People and the jail authorities,
whose immediate fruits were the
framing of the boys, throwing them
into solitary. end threats to mur-
der them unless they repudiated the
International Labor Defense, will be
presented to this committee.
I'VE could find no evidence of
discrimination against the Scots
boro prisoners, the withdrawing
grand jury declared after the sher-
ifs Illnesses had appeared before
it repeating the warden's previous
lies that the boys themselves
caused the disturbance.
Nationwide Protests Urged
The 1. L. D. has called on all
synlpathizers to adopt protest reso-
buttons and send kilograms, de-
handing an end to the torture of
the Scottsboro boys, TO be sent to
Governor B. M. Miller, r. B..
Continued on Pcge 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Vote 625 to 395 Against
Betrayal of A. F. of L.
Government
REJECT BLACKLIST
Racine and KenOsha
Strikers Also Out

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, April
15.-The Seaman Body work
ers of Milwaukee for a second
time have rejected the auto
board strike settlement. The
vote was 625 to 395 against the Of
fcials of the A. F. of L. and the COM
pany proposals. Richard Byrd, men,
Der Of the Roosevelt Auto Board
in Milwaukee, vainly attempted
to coerce the strikers to go back into
the shop without gains. The strikers,
under the leadership Of the rank
and file, stand by the original pro-
posals of a twenty per cent wage in
crease. They demand, further, rec
ignition of the union or Depart
mental Committees, and discharge
of strike breakers.
The last point invoked a great
struggle against the oficialdom. The
Auto Board proposal, as agreed to
by the officials, provided that only
strikers who have been hired be-
fore November LIST be taken back to
work first and that workers who
remained at work be taken back
second and that the rest of the
strikers hired after November 1st
lie taken back third, while strike
breakers hired after February %,
the date the strike broke cut be re-
hired last.
The rank and file pointed out
that this is an attempt to discrimin-
ate against strikers, furthermore it
divided the workers into classes.
The strikers demand that workers
on strike be put back to work first
without discrimination regardless of
when hired. In the event Of sur
plus jobs any other worker can be
hired. A mass picket line IS to be
formed Monday by the rank and file
which will continue the fi7ht for a
broad strike committee, ard against
gag rule OF officials. The strikers
are dissatisfied with the tactics Of
President Schultz. The Racine and
Kenosha workers, bound by agree
ment for joint action. are still cut
The rank and file will vcrk for tie
solidarity Of all these cities to ss2y
out till the demands are Won.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16

sending in on eof its most skilled
strikebreakers, Anna Weinstock, De-
partment of Labor conciliator. At a
meeting Friday of the Pratt g.
Whitney Aircraft and Chance
Vought workers, President La Vista,
of the independent Industrial Air.
craft Workers of America read off
telegram from this crafty strike
wrecker pleading with the men mot
to take any drastic action" until
she arrives on Monday at II a. m.
Both the A. F. of L, officialdom
and the government N. R. A. anti
labor slickers are moving in on this
strategic aviation strike led by this
new independent and militant trade
union.
The meeting on Friday night was
held to explain to the four or five
hundred aviation workers in the
Chance Vought plant why they are
not called out along with the Pratt
and Whitney Hamilton Standard
Propeller men who have already
been out for four days. The Chance
Vought men are raring to so and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
5000 on Strike in Hartford Var Industries

feel irritated and sighted for not
being called out in complete and
effective tie-up that would involve
all of the 1000 aviation men in this
city.
Even after President La Vista
explained that the men were held
in because OF a promise to the
management, and because this was
being held as trump card" two
of the Chase Vought men got up
and voiced the sentiment of the
men for immediate joining of the
strike. One insisted: why are we
not called out now?" Another said;
They call us scabs."
The leadership of the union,
mostly composed of young American
workers, is doing splendid job and
has the confidence of the men. But
it faces great dangers from the
maneuvres of the hoary strike
breakers from the Green. Lewis,
Hillman camp. working hand-in-
glove with Madam Weinstock of the
n. r. A.
The trump card would be to tie
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
German C.. p.
Leader Died
Under Torture
New Information Shows
Scheer Died in Jail;
Thaelmann in Danger

NEW YORK.-John Scheer, best
friend and co-worker of Ernst
Labor &C. n, o. c., representing
lets fired into his back at Nowawes
Forest, as was formerly believed.
He was tortured to death into the
Nazi secret police headquarters, the
Columbia House.
Ernst Thaelmann was taken to
the same fascist inquisition cham
Der, the Columbia House, for "ques-
tioning,' Immediately after Seheer's
deaths Here he was warned that
Scheers fate awaits him, too.
The body of the metal worker,
Scheer was tied hand and foot,
thrown into an automobile and
taken to the NoWawes forest, where
Nazi police drilled it with dum-dum
bullets to efface traces of the ter
rible torture.
This information was received
yesterday by the National Commit
tee to Aid Victims of German Fas-
cism from its international office in
Paris. Every day new information
about Columbia House tortures
reaches Paris.
George Stolt, former member of
the Berlin City Council and noted
sociologist, was taken from his
home in Berlin Moa bit-R athenover-
strasse, to Nazi secret police head
quarters to be questioned about his
son. Like Thaelmann he was tor
tured, and like Thaelmann he re-
fused to speak. After six hours of
questioning" George Stolt died.
When Thaelmann demanded to be
taken before an open court and
hear the charges against him, re-
fusing t oanswer any questions, he
was so brutally tortured that he
was unable to sit or lie down be-
cause Of the horrible pain.
Chained hand and foot, Thael-
mann was thrown into a cell in the
Columbia House until his facial
wounds specifically healed. Then
he was taken back to Moabit Prison.
Since then he has been under spe-
cial guard and his wife is refused
admission.
Warning of the state of Thael-
mann's health, the International
Liberation Committee cabled the
National Committee to Aid Victims
of German Fascism to intensity it's
campaign a thousand fold, that
Thaelmann's life is in grave dan
ger.
Declarations, making these three
demands, are being circulated by
the National Committee, and already
several hundred famous signatures
have been secured. Over a thousand
names, signed to the declaration,
will be sent to Germany shortly.
All mass organizations are called
upon to lombard the Washington
Embassy with protest kilograms and
to send delegations to the German
consulates throughout the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Tool and Die Makers
Rank and File for
Strike Spread
1000 NOW OUT
Men Want Vote Monday
On Broadening Strike

DETROIT, Mich. 15.-The
rank and file of the Me-
chanics Educational Society
of America are demanding
that Monday night strike vote be
taken Of all members of the society
for spreading the present strike of
1000 tool and die makers now out,
to all 1900 tool and die makers in
the organization.
The leaders of the M. E. S. A.,
headed by Secretary Smith, aternpt-
ing to stifle the demand of the mi
litant rank and file for the spread
of the strike, including its spread
to the production workers in the
big auto plants stated to capitalist
reporters that they were "unde-
cided" on whether they would allow
strike vote or not Monday. How
ever, Smith is strongly advocating
holding the strike down to those
now out, and thus behead it.
The 1000 tool and die makers now
out under the M. E. S. A. are de-
handing 20 per cent increase in pay
and the thirty-five hour week.
Meanwhile among the production
workers, A. F. of L. misleader, Will
lam Collins is busy trying to pre-
vent strikes. He announced that the
Kelvinator Corporation employees
will not strike. They have received
a wage increase.
In Flint, Michigan. 6,100 employees
Of the A. c. Spark Plug Co., were
also given ten per cent increase
in wages, it was announced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Workers Force
K Restaurant to
Serve Negroes
5000 Cheer Answer
To Attack On Mrs.
Wright, Gallagher
special to the Daily wOrker.)

iOpCCfdA W LAlC pdAAy ENOlhCAsJ
CLEVELAND, O., April 15.-Five
thousand persons gathered yester-
day on Cleveland's busiest street and
for ore hour cheered TOO Negro and
white workers demonstrating before
the Mills Restaurant, 315 Euclid
Ave, in protest against the jim
crow policy of the restaurant which
denied service to Mrs. Ada Wright,
Scottsboro mother, and Leo Gal
lagher, by whom she was accom-
panied.
Gallagher, who insisted that Mrs.
Wright be served, was thrown out
Of the restaurant and assaulted by
Leon Kuenning, pro-Nazi eger
of the restaurant, suffering two
fractured ribs,
A delegation elected by the dem
onstrators forced its way into the
restaurant and demanded the dis
missal Of the manager and an end
to the jin-crow policy of the restau-
rant. The delegation was headed
by Mrs. Thomas, a Negro worker,
and Sam Stein, district secretary Of
the International Labor Defense.
The management had called in its
attorney, who attempted to befuddle
the delegation with legalistic talk.
The delegation answered that even
the bourgeois law made it an Of
Tense to refuse service to s.syone be-
cause of race or color. He declared
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
l8 Million Get
Relief in u. S.
Hopkins Says
Figures Give Lie To
Official Reports
OF Recovery
Daily Worker Washington Bureau

Daily Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, D. c., April IS
-Four million seven hundred thou
sand American families-the BIGGEST
number ever recorded during any
crisis were listed officially on
March q. 1884, as existing on public
relief allowances to the unemployed
Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Relief
Director, announced Saturday. This
includes the millions who worked on
emergency work administration and
other projects for what meagre "re-
lief" money they received. Hopkins
said that this figure equals approx
mately 100000 persons on relief
The increase challenges the gov
ernment-sponsored fiction that the
condition of the masses of the pop
ulation has been bettered along with
improvement in business profits I'M
der the New Deal. Hopkins claimed
that it shows that while the num-
Der of unemployed is decreasing
somewhat, the restitution of those
still unemployed is more complete.
This means that lower middle class
and professional families savings
are being exhausted as the crisis
continues.
The figures for April will be
about the same" Hopkins predicted.
14S,000 "Transients"
He also gave out a written an
nouncement that 10000 individuals
were listed in transient relief cen
tiers and transient camps" on March
Is. These jim Crow transient re
lief centers" and camps are the
governments Nazif1ed program for
the homeless unemployed; in them
the unemployed is required to work
for his keep; in one of them at
Lynchburg, Va, many were burned
to death recently.
The relief headquarters an
nouncement said a conference of
directors of transient activities has
just closed here.
The considered future plans and
policies" the announcement cen
tinued, but it did not specify what
these may be. It said 259 trans
lent relief centers" and SO transient
camps" are now operating. Their
population includes 1885 families
with 57,678 members. This shows,
the announcement added, that fam
lily transient relief is not an insight
cat problem"
What the Announcement didn't say
is that this shows that whole fami-
lies as well as unattached individ-
uals are being forced to choose be-
tween forced labor in transient
camps and Jail. Among them are
many tenant farmer families forced
off the land by the Roosevelt crop
reduction program which raises
prices for the benefit Of big farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Seaman Body Strikers
Vote Down Auto Board
Betrayal; Remain Out
NRA-NetU Deal Gives
$82,993,OOO Profit
For AUTO Companies

NEW K-Automobile
corporations have profited enor-
mously as a result of the Roose-
welt New Deal" a recent bull
letin of the National City Bank
reveals.
Taking the latest reports of
the 10 leading automobile man
ufacturers, the bank report
shows that whereas these com
panies reaped profits, even after
payment of bond interest
amounting to millions of dol
lars. amounting to S82, G93. 900
for 1888, compared with a loss
of $29,196,00O during 1882, the
year before Roosevelt took Of
flee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Aviation Strike Led By
Independent Union;
May Spread
BY HARRY CANNES
Especial to the Daily Worker)

HARTFORD, Conn, April 15.-In
this beehive Of war industry, over
5000 workers are striking in avia-
ton. electrical and machinery
plants. Strike sentiment is rife in
other leading factories such as Colts
Firearms, Underwood Elliott Fisher
Co., and Royal Typewriter. Over
100 in the Terry Turbine Co. are
already on strike.
This afternoon nearly 5000 I'm
derwood workers will discuss action
on their demands for a IS per cent
increase in wages and union recog-
milton. The majority of these work.
ers are organized in the A. F. of L.
In order to get its aviation war
orders rolling, the government is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
.Jobless and CWA
Strike and March
For Jobs, Relief
LOO Strike Against
Ohio "WOrk Relief
Pay Slash
DEMAND C.W.A. PAY
Princeton, Ind, Relief
Workers Strike for
Pay Rise

NEW YORK.-Strikes, demon
STATIONS, and struggles against
the c. w. A. firings and wage cuts
for work relief" Jobs are reported
from many sections of the coun-
try. Determined not to accept the
the Roosevelt starvation wage of
S7.20 a week, the workers on the
relief jobs, under the leadership
Of the Unemployment Councils and
the c. w. A. unions, are demand
ing jobs at no less than G. w. A.
pay for all unemployed. or cash
relief equal to c. w. A. wages,
recognition of the workers COM
mittee and the immediate enact
ment of the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill III. R. 1881
LOO Strike in Ohio
HAMILTON, Ohio. = More thar
LOO relief workers, nearly all Of
those in the county, struck las
Thursday, demanding guaranteed
minimum wages equal at least tt
original c. w. A. pay. In Hamilton
fewer than so remained at work o.
the TOO who had been assigned Il
the newly launched Butler Count!
unit of the Federal Emergency Re.
lief Administration projects
The workers started the walk ou
on Wednesday as a protest agans
the wage rates of IS cents an houl
for laborers and 70 cents an hou
for skilled workers. BY Thursday
the strike had spread Throughout
the county, and according to Off
cial figures, less than 300 of thu
1880 workers employed on F. E. R
A. had remained on the job.
Strike on All Relief Work
PRINCETON, Ind, April 15.-Al
C. w. A. and P. w. A. workers il
Princeton and Gibson County ar
on strike, demanding guarantees
minimum wages of SIS a week in
stead of the present TAO work re
lief" The Gibson County Contra
Labor Union GA. F. of L., which
recently endorsed the Workers Un
employment Insurance Bill, has en-
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Strike Sentiment In
Colt, Underwood,
Other Plants

up the whole industry now as every
last enc Of the men want, and pre-
sent the N. R. A. conciliator ano
the bosses with this fact on Mon
day. At the same time, too much
reliance is put on the promise of
the bosses not to employ scabs. Al
the strikers should be drawn int
mass picketing.
Women Show Initiative
While the aviation workers vert
meeting at the Sons of Italy Hall
a simultaneous strike meeting was
going on at the Polish National
Home Of 1850 Arrow-Hart and Hag
german electrical plant workers. }
dashed over to this strike meeting,
arriving iN~- '7~'o"ds its close
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Call Hour Strike
in Cuba for Release
of Jailed Workers

Especial to the Daily Worker
HAVANA, Cuba, April l5.-The
Cuban National Federation of
Labor &C. n. C. c., representing
$4,000 workers, has issued a call
for Cuban nation wide one-hour
strike tomorrow for the freedom
of all political prisoners.
Seventy-One of the political
prisoners, who are now being held
in Principe fortress, have been on
a hunger strike for $50 hours.
Twenty are reported near death.
Fer further details, see page g..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
600 | lake Seamen
Strike in Buffalo
AT Discrimination
Picket Headquarters of
L ak e Carriers
Association

BUFFALO, April 15-Six hundred
seanen are striking here for the
rotary system of hiring, under the
leadership of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union A picket line has
been established in front Of the
Lake Carriers Association shipping
hall.
The seamen are demanding a
ro.ary system of hiring through
committees elected by the men, and
the abolition Of the system of the
Lake Carriers Association.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16

The dictatorship of the prole-
tariat must be State that en-
bodies new kind of democracy,
for the p-oIetarians and the dis
ncssessed; and a new kind OF
dictatorship, against the bour-
geoisie.-Lenin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Demand for Back
WAGES Wan on
SIS. Pan Ame erica
Grew Organizing for
Fight for 1929 Wage
Scale

NEW YORK-The crew of the
S. S. Pan America who struck II
New York harbor for back wages
and the 1929 wage scale, won the
first demand. The strike was set
tied after the company agreed to
pay the men what they owed them.
The ship sailed Saturday with
the crew Of ESQ half of whom are
Negroes. solidly behind the Marine
Workers industrial Union, which
led the strike.
Before the ship sailed the chair
man Of the ship committee said
that this fight for back wages was
just the beginning of the fight for
better conditions on this ship.
I'VE are now organizing stronger
than ever before for the 1929 wage
scale and the code Of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union" de-
clared the chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
1000 Cleveland C. A.
Demonstrators Stop
Relief Cuts
WIN ID E M A n d S
New York Unemployed
Storm Bronx
Relief BurO

CLEVELAND, Ohio, April Is. =
In a binding snow storm, with the
weather near zero, 1000 fired C.WA.
and unemployed workers, led by the
Unemployment Councils, demon
strated in the Public Square here
Friday, marched to the City Hall,
and forced the County Relief Com
missioners to withdraw the SO per
cent relief cut,
The workers gathered in various
parts of the city, marched to the
Public Square, and converged on the
City Hall. An elected committee Of
five presented the workers demands
to the Mayor, the County Relief
Commissioners, and to A. v. Cam
non, of the Cuyahoga County Re
lief Administration.
The workers demanded immediate
withdrawal OF the SO per cent re-
lief cut which was instituted on
April LIST, immediate cash relief,
continuation and extension of G. w.
A. and the enactment Of the Work
ers' Unemployment Insurance Bill
Oh. R. 1899.
1000 Bronx Workers Demonstrate
NEW YORK-One thousand fired
G, w. A. workers, under the leader
ship of the Relief Workers League,
charged past the police modified at
the Bronx Home Relief Bureau at
18Th St and Webster Ave, Satur-
day, and demanded G. w. A. jobs
for all unemployed workers or i'm
mediate cash relief equal to C.WA.
pay.
The demonstration started at $3.50
A. M. Saturday, when 400 fired G.
w. A. workers arrived, and sent an
elected committee of six inside to
protest the firing last Thursday and
Friday of 1000 park workers from
G. w. A. projects. AS the first con-
tingent of workers were in meet
ing outside, they were joined by 600
more workers, who had marched in
an orderly manner to the Relief
Bureau.
The police attacked the demon
strating workers, arresting Paul
Block Of the Relief Workers League,
Lester Bishop and James McCor-
mick
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
$50 Picket Hodson,s Office

While $50 fired C. w. A. workers
picketed the offices of Commissioner
of Welfare William Hodson of so
Lafayette st. Saturday, Hodson and
his deputy commissioners were
forced to receive delegation after
delegation Of workers protesting the
G. w. A. firings, discrimination
against Negroes on jobs and relief,
and demanding jobs for the fired C..
W. A. workers and unemployed.
When pushed to the wall by the
workers delegates, Hodson was
forced to admit that relief appropri-
ations would probably" be cut by
at least million dollars for May,
and that the federal government
and the state had decreed a pro-
gresSive cut in the number on work
relief from May to October"
No Assurance After May /
The workers, wishing to know
what security the present work re-
lief" jobs offered them, were told
by Hodson that those having Jobs
now can have no assurance that
they will have them after May l."
He categorically refused to return
the recent wage cuts, or to endorse
(COnttnMed On, Pane Zl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
STRIKE LOOMS IN HoPEWELL

HOPEWELL. Va. CF.Pl-A Strike
looms in Hopewell Tubize Co, PLAN
because of anti-union discrimina-
ticn.
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