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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
RELIEF LISTS SWELL WHILE APPROPRIATIONS ARE SASHED
HerndOn Conference
Is Set for August 8

NEW YORK. - Hundreds of
delegates from national and local
organizations will take part in an
Emergency Herndon Conference
next Wednesday, Aug. 8, at st.
Paul's Church, 249 w. 132nd ST.,
at 7:30 pm. The conference will
formulate plans to intensity the
campaign to free the working
class Negro youth sentenced to
20 years on Georgia chain
gang, and to free the Scottsboro
boys, and Ernst Thaelmann,
militant leader of the German
workers.
The Scottsboro case has gone
to the Alabama State Supreme
Court for the second time, and
proof of the boys innocence has
been established before the
whole world. All organizations
clubs, lodges, churches and
unions-are urged to elect two
delegates to the conference. Or
CARNATIONS are invited to send
speakers.
The conference, which has
been called jointly by the inter-
national Labor Defense and the
League of Struggle for Negro
Rights. has received the endorse
nent of so organizations, includ-
ing the international Workers
Order, American League Against
War and Fascism and the Com
munist Party of the U. S. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
VigiIante Raids, State
Violence, Inspired
by Boss Press

NEW YORK.-The San Francisco
newspaper publishers, organized
into a Newspaper Publishers Coun-
Gill;" led by John Neylsnd, Hearst
attorney, played major role in
breaking the general strike, it is
admitted in the current issue of the
Editor and Publisher.
"Dailies Help Break General
Strike" is the revealing title of this
article by Earl Burke, which re-
counts the steps by which these
publishers spread daily propaganda
against the unions and their lead
ers, and inspired the vigilante raids
and police arrests of union leaders.
The Council received the full CO.
operation of the conservative union
leaders" in this strike-breaking
work.
That these publishers, including
all the kept press in and around
San Francisco. understood the issue
as a fight against union recogni-
ton, is shown in the statement that
to grant the demand of the long
shoremen for control of hiring halls
would be a compromise with reyo-
luton" The whole strategy of the
publishers, through splitting the
unions and manufacturing wave
Of terror under the guiSe of the red
scare, was to defeat this demand
for union recognition and maintain
the open shop.
Just before the zero hour a
group of publishers of the bay
region newspapers >. met to de-
wise ways to meet the crisis. John
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Protest Brutality Used
Against Relief Pickets

NEW YORJk.-A protest delega-
ton of Bronx workers and mem
bers of the International Labor De-
tense forced Mayor LaGuardia to
order that Helen Lynch be taken
out of solitary confinement at the
Women's Jail, where she had been
sentenced to fifty days for her par
ticipation in picket line at the
Bronx Relief Bureau.
Helen Lynch, organizer of the
Bronx County Unemployment
Councils, together with eight other
workers, was arrested last week
when police attacked the picket
line. Married women were given
one day sentences and single wo-
men two days. The women were
put in solitary confinement for re-
fusing to undergo an examination
usually given to prostitutes to dis
cover any veneral disease.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Z More Unions
Give Approval
tow Orkers'Bill

NEW YORK-Four more A. F..
Of L. local unions and three indie
pendent unions have added their
names to the thousands of trade
unions which have endorsed the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill. Independent unions and fra
ternal and mass organizations have
also backed the Workers Bill in
the recent period.
The latest A. F. of L. unions to
act on the bill are: International
Moulders' Union 275 of South Chi
cago which instructed its delegates
to the I. M. U. convention to be
held in Chicago on Aug. Is to pre-
sent and back the bill on the floor
of the convention; Machinists'
Union 203 of Akron, Ohio, and To-
cal 125 of the International Union
of Mine, Mill and Shelter Workers,
and Carpenters Local 1929 of Iron
River, Mich.
Three independent unions. the
Sheet Metal Workers International
Society of Detroit, the Weavers'
Progressive Association of Fall
River, Mass, and the Bricklayers
and Masons Independent Union Of
Baltimore have endorsed the Work
ers' Bill.
In Iron River, Mich, where the
newly-formed Iron County Labor
Union, rank and file relief work.
ers' organization, has been active,
the Caspian Village Council has
been forced to back the bill. Cas-
plan is mining town with popu-
lation of 100.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
New Effort Is Urged
By Shepard in Drive

BUFFALO, N. Y, Aug. Henry
Shepard, acting district organizer
for this area, today called on all
Party members and Sympathizers to
intensity their work in the circula-
ton campaign for the Daily Worker.
Shepard's appeal was made in COM
menting on the fact that his dis
trict leads all others in filling its
subscription quota.
wherever the oppressed are at
tackled it is the Daily Worker that
rallies the masses for struggle. f.. i.
I call upon every Party unit, every
mass organization in western New
York to continue to throw their full
force into the campaign to secure
new readers for the Daily Worker"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
1000 Meet.
Back Logan
Mine Strike
Groups March Against
Firing of Militant
Union Members
BY a Miner Correspondent

NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. - Ths
strike Of the miners of the Pitts
burgh and Allegheny Coal Co. at
Logan's Ferry is in its tenth week,
with the picket line as strong as
ever. The miners were locked out
when they fought against firing Of
militant union members, and
turned the lockout into strike.
On Sunday, July %, over two
thousand miners attended the mass
meeting at Orchard Park, AETNA
tonia, Pa, in support Of the Logans
Ferry Miners. This meeting was
attacked in the press and by the
district and national officials of the
United Mine Workers Of America
as an outlaw" meeting. Resolu-
tons were passed protesting the
revoking Of the Logans Ferry U.
M w. A. charter by the district and
International officials. Greetings
were sent to the Minneapolis and
San Francisco strikers.
The district and international Of
ficials Of the o. NJ. w. A. have sup
ported the company from the start
and have tried to force the men
to return to work and accept dis
elimination against their leaders.
This the local union members re-
fuse to do.
On Tuesday, July Gath, the men
marched down to the mine to get
rehired. The militants we're in the
front Of the line, they we're the
first to make the applications. This
time they were not refused. They
rehired all of the men, but they
did not tell them when to come to
work. The men are determined to
stick until every man is put back
on his job. When this action took
place the women gathered on the
hill, one of them playing the ac-
Gordon, and singing took place.
The women are also out in the
morning when the men are on
picket duty daily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Lynn Union Heads
Given Heavy Fines
in Contempt Trial

LYNN, Mass, Aug. COSTS of
$1,000 and fines of $500 were paid
by three former officers of the Ma
tional Shoe workers Union, now
merged with the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Union, in con-
tempt proceedings brought against
the organization in 1888 by the
Gregory and Read Shoe Company.
The three officials we're John Van
Solver, William B. Mahan and Mrs.
Mary Magee.
Gregory and Read is the largest
shoe manufacturer in the city and
has maintained the open shop for
years. The contempt proceedings
was based on an injunction gotten
out against the union to halt pick
citing of the company plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Publishers Paper Boasts How Frisco
Editors Led Fight on Strike With Lies

on which the lives Of all de-
pended. The lessons from the
English strike gave all papers
their theme for further editor
ialS."
The reactionary A. F. of L. lead
ers were then enlisted in order to
split and demoralize the strikers.
''Under Mr.. Neyland's leader
ship plans were made to crush
the revolt. Mr.. Neyland en-
tered into negotiations with con-
sentative labor leaders. Con-
servative labor leaders welcomed
this help, as they realized that
Communists in control Of mari
time unions had stampeded other
unions by saying this was the
time for organized labor to take
its place in the sun. Newspaper
editorials built up the strength
and influence of the conserva-
tive leaders and aided in split
ting the conservative membership
away from the radicals"
When General johnson came to
San Francisco, he favored promising
some concessions TO the strikers, in
order not to embarraSs the Presi-
dent, the article states. But after
stormy conference with the news
paper publishers, THE General then
endeavored to be as helpful as pos
sible, and the next day, in an ad-
dress broadcast from the University
of California, he affirmed the right
of labor to strike, but denounced
the general strike as revolution
and said that it had to stop"
BY use Of the most extreme ter
ror, with fascist bands and police
raids, arrests, shootings, and with
the aid Of the reactionary A. F. Of
L. officials, the strike began to dis
integrate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Smith MESA Machine Ended
Burroughs Strike in Defeat

hope for involving the production
men in the strike and winning a
smashing victory.
Smith, the Socialist Party mem
Der, proved that he did not believe
in building a united front of the
workers. His stand during the big
tool and die strike that it was "a
calamity" and it would interfere
with the Roosevelt recovery pro-
gram" was revived during the last
phase of the Burroughs struggle.
Smiths slogan became: TITS no use
getting killed for 10-cent raise!
Call the strike off" Despite the
confusion and decentralization sown
by the Smith machine about half
of the workers at the last strikers
meeting voted to continue the
struggle. But the machine ruled
that majority had voted to re-
turn.
Plan of A. w. U.
This was Smiths answer to the
Auto Workers Union letter of July
IL. This letter sent to the Bur
roughs Strike Committee and the
District Committee of the M. E. S.
A. made the following proposals for
strengthening the strike: ID That
another mass picket line be organ
lied on Monday. That all assist
ing organizations come together in
advance to plan the picketing.
90 That a big central mass meet
ing be organized in the center of
the city around the issues involved
in the strike. 80 That delegations
be sent to involve more organiza-
tons, including A. F. of L. locals
(4) That the other locals of the
M. E. S. A. be involved in the
struggle. 60 That efforts be made
to draw in the production workers,
demands drawn up for them, etc.
co. That the united front work be
made more effective by setting up
a co-ordinating committee, with
representatives from all organiza-
tons uniting in support of the
strike. This would mean better
picketing, raising of strike relief,
defense for arrested strikers, etc.
The charges of the M. E. S. A.
progressiyes that the tactics of
Smith and the District Committee
have been similar to the policies of
the A. F. of L. leaders are COM
pletely borne out by the results of
the Burroughs strike. The call of
the progressives to the M. E. S. A.
membership to unite their ranks
against the disruptive Smith ma
chine and to initiate united front
struggles against the worsening con-
ditions of unemployment, low wages,
discrimination by the employers,
company unionism, ETC., becomes a
life and death question for the M.
E. S. A. after the Burroughs de-
feat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
PROTEST p. o. CLERK
DISMISSAL

NEW YORK.--A vigorous protest
against the proposed dismissal Of
Moses Siegal, a substitute clerk in
the Grand Central Post Office, for
organizational activities, has been
sent by Albert Gottlieb, President
of the National Association of Sub
stitute Post Office Employees, to
John J. Kelly, New York POST
master. Kieiy is attempting BY
threats and intimidation to prevent
the organization of the $4,000 New
York postal employees, the union de-
clared. A telegram of protest has
also been sent to the First Assistant
Postmaster General, w. w. Howes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
STEEL CONVENTION FRI.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 31.-The
national convention of the Steel
n d Metal Workers Industrial
Union, which meets here on Friday,
will weigh growing strike sentiment
among the rank and file in the in
dustry and will map strike for va
rious important plants in which
struggles for wages, improved work.
ing conditions and union recognition
are developing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Stachel to Speak
In N. Y. Aug. IL

Jack Stachel, acting Secretary of
the Trade Union Unity League, will
speak on Left Wing Communism:
An InfantiEe Disorder" on Friday
evening, Aug. II, at 8 o'clock, at
so E. 18th ST., second floor, New
York City. This lecture comes at
time when the attempts of the
capitalist class to break up the
trade union movement are i'm
measurably helped not only by the
A. F. of L. misleaders, but also by
the renegades of the working class
movement, the Trotzkyites and the
Lovestonites.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Call Issued to Youth
on Fall Congress

Young workers and students of
the nation are mobilizing for the
Youth Congress Against War and
Fascism called for Sept. %, %
and 80 in Chicago.
Thousands in the factories and
on the farm. in schools and COL
leges, in settlement houses and
neighborhood clubs are launch
ing preparations for an event Of
historic Importance in the strug-
gle agains imperialist war, in
hurting back the concerted fas-
cist drive being waged by the
Roosevelt administration against
picket lines in every city.
Danger threatens us. The
storm Of war is about to engulf
the world" declares the call to
the Congress issued by the Youth
Section Of the American League
Against War and Fascism.
1t urges immediate and inten-
sive campaigns in every area to
elect delegates to the Congress,
to insure representation on a
broad and decisive scale, to carry
the program of the League into
every locality and build militant
mass support for it.
The Youth Section of the
American League was organize
last September at the first U. S.
Congress Against War and Fas-
cism, where more than 500 of the
2,616 delegates were young work
ers and students. That assem-
blage drew representatives from
organizations of all descriptions
farm, union, social, fraternal,
sport and peace.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
$50 N. Y. Fur Shops
Win Wage Increases

NEW YORK. The Fur Workers
Industrial Union FORCES ahead win
ming victory after victory in the
fight for summer wage increases.
Yesterday the union chalked up its
one hundred and fiftieth victory in
the campaign which began last
month.
To discuss the situation in the
trade, the fight for the July in
creases, the union manifesto and
the election of officers district shop
chairman meetings will be held
after the working hours today at the
union headquarters, 131 w. 18th St.
A special meeting of furriers re-
siding in the Bronx will be held
at 7.30 tonight at 1904 Southern
Boulevard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
BY NAT GANLEY

DETROIT, Mich, July 31.-The
Matthew Smith, Harry Harrison
leadership of the Mechanics Edu-
cational Society has succeeded in
getting the Burroughs Adding Ma
chine Company strike called off.
They did not even fight for guar
antee from the company that there
would be no discrimination in the
rehiring of the strikers. Thus the
Smith machine and the District
Committee of the M. E. S. A. bears
full responsibility for leading the
union from defeat to defeat (the
lost Tool and Die strike, the lost
Michigan Stove strike and now
Burroughs).
The Burroughs strike started on
May % and at its height involved
some 400, out of about 1000 work
ers in the liant. Most of the 400
strikers Y , tool and diemakers.
The Smith machine made no real
attempt to strike the production
workers, though many were mem
bers of the M E. S. A. The tool
and diemakers walked out when
John Koetters, chairman of the
Burroughs Shop Committee, was
laid off for an alleged infraction
of the company rules. The real
reason was an attempt by the COM
pany to smash the union of the
workers own choice, in this case
the M. E. S. A. The workers knew
this and they struck in fine, mill
tant spirit.
United Front Developed
Under the influence of Smiths
anti-strike wayering and indecisive
policies the Burroughs struggle be-
gan to peter out. The Regional
Labor Board, N. r. A., played chess
with the strikers, took their mind
off the picket line and led them
into passivity. Six valable weeks
were lost During the first week of
July the Burroughs Strike Com
mittee decided to break with the
passivity of the past, to develop a
new militancy and a solid united
front support of the strike. 1--WE
will present sitter terms! We will
broaden our picket lines! Workers
of Detroit: Support us with all
means at your disposal. We are
out to win" declared the Burroughs
Strike Committee.
The Communist Party, Auto
Workers Union, A. F. of l.. Rank
and File Committee, ETC., answered
this call with a mass picket line of
over 400 on Monday, July 9.
William Weinstone, District Organ
izer of the Communist Party, was
greeted with applause when he
pledged the support of the Party
at the strikers mass meeting. The
struggle had reached higher level
of militancy, there was renewed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
IA Ordered Deported
Following Vigilante
Raids in California

SAN FRANCISCO, July 31.-Four-
teen workers arrested in the fascist
raids on the Communist Party and
the unions were ordered deported by
Edward Cahill, United States Com
missioner of Immigration. The In
ternational Labor Defense has an
nounced that a mass campaign will
be started to halt the proceedings
of the federal government against
these workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
81 Percent
On Relief in
One County
Struggle for Workers
Insurance Bill Is
Urgent Task

NEW YORK.-Each day brings
reports of mounting numbers of
lobless workers applying for relief
while reports from all parts of the
country show renewed attacks upon
the unemployed in the form of
slashing reductions in average and
total relief payments.
Vast sections of the unemployed
remain without any relief whatso-
ever. Negro and foreign-born work
ers are singled out for special dis
elimination. Widespread relief cuts
in every part of the. country run as
high as "a per cent in the June
relief slash in Boise, Idaho, and
40 per cent in Waterbury, Conn.
$4,000 Laid Off In June
The workers in the shops are in
no better situation. June reports
by the Department of Labor indi-
cate that in the manufacturing in
dustry alone $4,000 workers were
thrown out of work in the month
of June. Average payrolls were
slashed 2.6 per cent in the same
period, while food prices rose.
State and national reports show
an increased demand for relief. In
the copper country of Michigan,
late relief figures show that BIB
per cent of the entire population OF
Keweenaw County are on relief. In
Ontonagon County, Michigan, the
percentage is 81; in Houghton
County, SAT-.
A recent survey of Silver Bow
County, Mont, another copper
mining section, shows $1,000 persons
out of total population Of $1,000
are on relief.
One-Fifth In Colorado On Relief
One-fifth of the entire population
of Colorado is on relief, and the
lists have risen from 96,777 in jan
uary to 2O8,364 in June. A recent
federal order demanded that the
lists be slashed.
After an election campaign in
which he repeatedly promised un-
employment insurance to the job
less, Roosevelt gave his support to
the fake Wagner-Lewis Bill, which
is of no benefit to the working
class, and then adjourned Congress
with message that he intends to
study" the question once more.
Embracing as it does every sec
ton of the working population, the
demand for the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill III. R. 1880
must be broadened. The members
of the A. F. of L. unions must be
won for the Workers Bill by means
of struggle in the neighborhoods
and at the relief stations in the de-
mand for relief, pressure on the
CITY. state and national governments
for additional relief funds, for jobs
at trade union wages, and against
forced labor on the relief projects.
White collar workers, veterans
and small home owners organlza-
tons must be approached with the
Workers Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Italian Clubs Will Hold
Benefit Picnic Sunday

NEW YORK.-Italian workers
clubs, trade union groups and
branches Of the International
Workers Order will take part in a
picnic at North Branch Park, AS
toria, on Sunday for the benefit of
L'unita' Operaia, Italian working
class weekly newspaper. There will
be an open-air mock trial of Angelo
Nunzio, editor of the paper, and
Joseph Ingargiola, head Of the In
dependent Order of the Sons of
Italy. Ingargiola was ousted from
the order following an expose of his
activities by Uunzio.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Workers Stop Eviction

SHAMOKIN, Pa, Aug. Work
ers under the leadership Of the I'm
Council stopped the
eviction of Blassic, an unemployed
worker, here Monday.
When the workers arrived they
found that the landlords son had
down the door. and depu-
ties were already moving the fur
niture. The workers massed before
the house and stopped the eviction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
REPUBLIC LOCKOUT
ENDS

WARREN, Ohio, July 31.-Offi-
cias of the Republic Steel Corpora
ton plant here announced they
would resume operations following
the acceptance of the National Steel
Labor Relations Board arbitration
Man by officials of the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers. The agreement
covers only the hot mill workers.
The rest are unorganized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Plan
70 Strike on
Mobile Piers

MOBILE, Ala, Aug. Twelve
hundred Mobile longshoremen,
members of the international Long
shoremen's Association, are prepar-
ing to renew their strike here if the
Mobile Steamship Association does
not live up to an agreement which
ended the last strike.
The company has been sponsor
ing a company union and has been
discriminating against members of
the I. L. A. since the strike was
called off. Former strikers have
been refused employment while
strike breakers have been taken on.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Circus Men on Strike
in indianapolis for
Increase in Wages

INDIANAPOLIS,Aug. 1. = One
hundred roustabouts and canvas
men of the Ringing Brothers and
Barnum and Bailey Circus walked
out on strike today.
The walkout occurred while the
men we're erecting the animal tent.
Employees from other sections of the
circus scabbed on the men and put
up the tent, while police herded the
strikers to an adjoining lot. The
strikers are demanding the restora-
ton of the 1880 wage scale-$10.50
week and a SIS monthly bonus.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
AIMED AGAINST STRIKE

OMAHA, Neb., July 31.-In an
effort to break the strike Of street
car men here and in Council Bluffs,
city authorities have decided that
any owner of private automobile
may start a jitney bus service dur
ing the period of the strike. Mean
while r. L. Blume, secretary of the
Regional Labor Board, continues his
efforts to send the men back to
work without any guarantees for
compliance with their demands by
the company.