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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20
Gen. Johnson, AL Chiefs,
Bosses Act to Stop Strike
Cleveland Fisher Body
Men Vote 3O56 to
SO for Strike
MORE VOTE TO-DAY
Sherman Williams, Apex
Electric Workers Strike

CLEVELAND, O., March 19.-Auto
workers here by the thousands are
voting to join the general automo-
bile strike on Wednesday. The
Fisher Body plant workers voted
1856 to Sc to strike for higher wages
and recognition of their union. over
500 workers in the winston Engine
Works, a General Motors unit, voted
to go out on strike Wednesday.
Workers in the Murray Ohio Com
pany, number more than TOO, de-
clared they would join the strike.
other workers are also joining the
strike movement. More than 500
workers of the Sherwin- Williams Co.
paint factory went out on strike to-
day demanding wage increases.
A strike vote is on at the Ad-
dressograph- Multigraph. About 1000
workers Of the Apex Electric Co. will
take strike vote tomorrow if their
demands for higher wages are not
met. Three hundred workers Of the
Cleveland Welding Co. are to vote on
strike Wednesday.
Strikes are also going on in To-
ledo. Several thousand are out at
the Toledo Machine & Tool Co. Fiji
teen cleaning and -dyeing shops are
being picketed A strike of 5000
workers at the American National
Co. is threatened. Workers vote on
strike tonight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20
Soviet Flyer, Lost
4Days, Is Reported
Found Safe, Alive

MOSCOW, March 19.-Anatole
Liapidevsky, Soviet airman who has
been missing since March IA, when
he took off from Cape Wellen in
search Of the crew of the sunken
ship "Cheliuskine," has been found
alive, according to an official So
Wet statement yesterday.
The statement declared that
sleighs sent in search of the miss
ing flyer found him six miles from
Koliuchin Island. Liapidevsky had
been forced to land because Of dam
age to his left motor. He landed
safely except for slight damage to
the chassis OF his plane.
The crew of the Cheliuskine, &C
cording to the report, is safe and
in good health.
Tomorrow Liapidevsky will return
to the site of his landed plane to
ascertain the possibilities of effect
ing repairs on the spot, bringing a
motor to the spot. He hopes to fly
to the Cheliuskine crew very soon.
The flyers Galyshev and Doro-
min, who left Khabarovsk two days
ago despite snowstorns and very
poor visibility, arrived at Niko-
laevsk, Amur, conquering this diff
cult 900 kilometer route. Flyer
Vodopianov, who took off together
with the others, was forced to re-
turn to Khabarovsk, but he planned
to take off again late last night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20

settled cabs.
Picket lines we're strengthened at
the Terminal System Garages, fol-
lowing the disclosure of the fact
that the Terminal, with strong po-
lice protection, were attempting to
roll their cars at the Pennsylvania
and Grand Central stations.
According to Samuel Orner, Pres
ident of the Union, reliable infor-
nation was received at union head
quarters that Terminal and Parme-
lee Companies are hiring guerillas
and paying them 81 a day to ride
around in cabs. IF you don't get
away, I'll break your head" said a
guerilla to the striker at the Penn
sylvania Terminal. The union has
sent strong protests to the Mayor
and Chief of Police, demanding
that the cops and gangsters be re-
moved from the cars. 1t was esti-
mated yesterday, according to a
union check-up, that $1,000 men
were striking.
Men in the settled garages are
now working four days week, un-
der union supervision. The other
three days are worked by strikers
who are most active on the picket
lines.
Swelling the picket lines today,
and raising the morale of the strik-
ers, the Food Workers Industrial
Union sent a number of its men,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20
BuddAuto Workers
Boo Johnson At
Local Union Meet

PHILADELPHIA, March 10. = A
/ dramatic demonstration of the
! growing disgust and discomfort of
4 the workers with the N. R. A. was
shown by the raucous booing of
General Johnson's name at a meet
ing of over 1000 Buud Auto Body
men at union meeting here on
Saturday.
A veritable barrage of attacks on
the N. r. A. and its methods of
driving workers into company union
featured the meeting for over three
hours.
The men rejected Gen. Johnson's
proposal for a new election at the
! Budd plant to determine to which
union the men shall belong, If the
hundreds of workers who were fired
in the last strike are not reinstated
and given an opportunity to vote.
Adolph Hirschberg, president of
the Central Labor Union, and an
N. R. A.. official, while berating
Gen. Johnson, tried to get the men
to keep their faith in President
FN 7sevelt, and engineered the adop-
ton of telegram to the Presi-
dent. Hirschberg was one who dur
ing the strike helped the N. r. A.
gain the mems confidence so it
could break their STRIKE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20
Cut Pay, Fire
Many Off New
WOrk'Schene
ROOsevelt's Substitute
for C.W.A. to Provide
Wage Slash
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG

WASHIN GTON, D. c.,
March 19.-Federal Relief Di-
rector Hopkins of the C.W.A.
announced late today that $12
a week will be the average"
wage for all workers on the slashed-
pay and Slashed-payroll work prof.
ectS which the Roosevelt govern
ment will substitute for the G. w.
A. on March 81. According TO the
detailed plans Hopkins gave out,
however, the schedule will provide
= maximum of "A hours at a
minimum" pay Of 30c an hour -
exactly S7.20 week.
This is what President Roosevelt
provides under what he called lin
dividual self-reliance" in ANNOUNCE
ing the new plan last February %.
The new program will provide no
compensation from the Federal
Government for injuries on work
projects.
Hopkins said it would give work
to somewhere under two million,
somewhere over one and one-half
million" He declared that $500, 000,-
900 will cover expenses well into
next winter. for these work
projects in industrial cities and for
Federal relief and for rural work
projects. The new plan divides all
unemployment relief into three
classes, distressed families in rural
areas, stranded populations, and the
unemployed in urban centers." Hop
kins declined to say how much
money would be provided for the
unemployed in urban centers, but
pointed out that "the essence" OF
the new program is "decentraliza-
ton" He said only those who are
NEEDY" VIRTUALLY a pauper's oath
basis) would be included, and that
responsibility is now placed jointly
on Federal, State and local author
tiles.
The program provides the I'M
employed in rural areas with even
less.
Asked whether Roosevelt's agri-
culture program is not throwing
tenant farmers of the land now,
Hopkins replied, yes"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20
MuSSOlini Speech
.SharpenS Conflicts
AmOngImperialistS
Boasts of Corporate
State Which Presses
Yoke on Workers

ROME, March 19.-Benito Musso-
lini brought the imperialist con-
f1icts of Europe into sharp relief ir
a grandiose speech before 5000 fas-
cists at an assembly of leading
italian industrialists and fascist
functionaries yesterday, in prepa-
ration for next Sundays national
election"
He declared that in so years fas-
cist Italy will dominate the world
He declared Italian imperialism
must expand in Africa and Asia
and that the imperialists who al
ready control the colonial areas OF
those continents must make way
for italy.
He declared for e-armament OF
Germany, the independence of Aus
tria and for more Italian children
and more powerful italian army.
Peasants Fire Town Hall
Facing widespread discomfort OF
the many thousands of unemployed
the workers at starvation wages, and
the peasants ruined by taxes and
low prices for their produce, he pro-
jected a grandiose plan to rebuild
farm houses, in order, as he ex-
Continued on PAGE y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20
Filipino Freedom"
Bill Passes House
Measure Sacrifices No
Imperialist Interest

WASHINGTON, March 10. - The
McDuffie Tydings Bill, putting
chains on the Philippine Islands in
the guise of granting eventual Gin
dependence" was passed by the
House today.
The bill, slightly different from
the Halves Cutting Bill rejected by
the Filipino landlord : capitalists,
provides for the further economic
enslavement Of the Islands, and for
the maintenance Of U. S. navy and
army bases for an indefinite period,
while promising eventual political
separation from the U. S. Without
sacrificing any substantial interest
of U. S. imperialism, it is designed
to win the Filipino bourgeoisie for
support Of the U. S. against Japa-
nese imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20
LOCAL UNIONS MEET TO SUPPORT eva PROTEST STRIKE
Force Mayor
Order Probe
of His Police
Delegation Wins Pledge
of No Police Attack on
Protest This Saturday
BULLETIN

OOAA<klA AN
NEW YORK.-Hearing in the
case of the four white and Negro
workers arrested during the police
attack on Saturdays demonstra-
ton was postponed yesterday to
Thursday at 2 O'Clock, in the
East 121st Street court, between
Third and Lexington Avenues.
The reason for the postpOnement
was clearly the huge turnout Of
indignant workers who packed the
court yesterday morning. All
workers are urged to turn out
again on Thursday.
NEW YORK.-Vigorously protest
ing the brutal police attack on last
Saturdays Scottsboro demonStra-
trion in Harlem, a delegation
headed by the Scottsboro Mother
Mrs. Ada Wright, yesterday wresteo
a promise from Mayor La Guardia
to prevent his police interfering
with the Scottsboro and police
brutality protest demonstration
called for this coming Saturday ir
Harlem. He promised to keep hi:
police thugs of the streets during
the demonstration.
The Mayor admitted that it wa
not necessary to ask the police fol
a permit to hold a meeting, but al
the same time refused to condemn
the unprovoked police attack or
Saturdays meeting at 127th Street
and Lenox Avenue. He refused the
delegations demand for an oper
investigation, but under pressure o.
the fierce indignation Of the massel
of Harlem and the city generally
finally agreed to order an investi-
cation by the police heads. Lex
Gallagher, one of the spokesmer
(Gonti1gued IN Pane ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20
Madison Square Garden
Demonstration on
March Is
ORGANIZE ON JOBS
Demand No Discrini-
nation Against Negroes
BULLETIN

ELMIRA, N. Y, March 49,
Several hundred C.W.A. workers
here we're on strike yesterday, and
strike committees were visiting all
city C.W.A. projects to draw all
C.WA. workers in the city out on
strike against the Roosevelt wage
cuts. In the town Of Seneca Falls,
so struck, and C.W.A. officials
feared further spread of the strikes
in the northern New York State
counties.
NEW YORK.-The New
York A. F. of L. Trade Union
Committee for Unemployment
Insurance and Relief yester-
day issued a call to the N. Y.
A. F. of L. locals, calling upon them
to attend conference to mobilize
the A. F. of L. members for the
nationwide one-hour protest strike
to demand continuation of C. w. A.
The conference is called for
Thursday, March %, at 7:3O pm. at
the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers' Rank and File Center, l16 Uni
versity Place, New York.
The one-hour protest strike
against Roosevelt's c. w. A. firing
takes place on Thursday, March %,
at 4 pm. At that time the workers
will mass at the City Hall in DEM
onstration against the G. w. A. fir
ings.
The Committee of 100, elected by
the united front conference initiat-
ing the strike, has called a confer
ence for all trade unions, A. F. of
L., independent and T. U. U. L.. to
take place Wednesday afternoon,
March 81. The A. F. of L. com
mittee is also supporting this con-
ference.
Statement of A. F. of L. Committee
The N. Y. A. F. of L. Trade Union
Committee for Unemployment In
surance and Relief also calls upon
every rank and file group in A. F.
OF L. locals to be present at the
meeting Thursday night, March %.
David Gordon, secretary of the
N. Y. A. F. of L. Committee. in a
statement on the G. w. A. workers
one-hour strike, said: There are
thousands of A. F. of L. members
working on c. w A. projects. The
A. F. Of L. top leadership is doing
nothing to prevent the termination
of the G. w. A jobs. They are also
doing nothing to really help the I'M
employed.
only the rank and file and hon
est officials Of the A. F. of L., united
with the organized and morgan
lied unemployed workers and the
employed, will be able to change
the situation.
In this connection, therefore,
March 20 must also find all A. F. of
L. members demanding the enact
ment of the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill, H. r. 1898, as
well as continuation of the C.W.A.
For this purpose we are calling a
conference of A. F. of L. locals and
local union groups on Thursday,
March %, at 7:30 pm, at 116 Uni
versity Place, N. Y"
The Greater New York Confer
ence for United Front Action on
G. W. A. and Unemployment, which
initiated the nationwide protest
strike, is calling a mass meeting in
Madison Square Garden on Sun
day, March Is, at 2 pm. The con-
ference elected a committee of 100
to carry on the work. The head
quarters Of this Arrangements Com
mittee are at 232 Seventh Ave-,
New York, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20
Chicago Workers to
Demand March 3Ist
CWA Parade Permit

CHICAGO, March 10. - All
workers organizations here are
urged to send resolutions and
delegations Immediately to the
Mayor and the chief of police
demanding that permits be
granted for the united front
demonstration and march of the
c. w. A. and jobless workers
through the Loop on March 81.
All organizations should get
leaflets and other material at
the Offices of the nemployment
Councils at 300 Armitage Ave.
The arrangements committee is
also appealing for funds with
which to carry through the work.
A symposium on unemploy-
ment insurance will be held at
Mirror Hall. 1876 North West
ern Ave, Friday, March %, at
7:30 p. m. This symposium will
also serve as a rally for the
march
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20

NEW YORK.-The Essex County
(Newark and vicinity New Jersey
Central Labor Union of the A. F.
of L., with over 100 delegates pres
ent, unanimously endorsed the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill at its meeting Fri
day night. Resolutions were send
ing to the local congressman and
to Ernst Lundeen, calling for its
enactment by the present session of
Congress.
The Danbury, Conn, Central
Labor Union has Endorsed the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill Oh. r. 1899.
Local Union $500, U. M. w. A. of
Westville, Ill, which has almost
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20
By A. B. MAGIL


Especial to the Daily Worker)
DETROIT, March ia
strike in all auto plants of
Detroit and Flint looms for
Wednesday. While the N. R.
A., aided by A. F. of L. Off
cials, are making desperate effort
to prevent strike action, the Hud-
son A. F. of L, local at mass
meeting in Cas- Technical High
School yesterday confirmed the de-
cision to strike on Wednesday. at
nine o'clock, and meeting of
Motor Products A. F. of L. local,
voted amid cheers for strike, after
militant trade unionists emphat-
ically declared that is the only way
to better conditions.
Meetings of Auto Workers Union
locals in Dodge, Chevrolet, Tern
Stedt, Briggs and other plants re-
port strike sentiment is widespread
and the workers are awaiting the
signal to down tools.
The Auto Workers Union is iSSu-
ing call to workers of all plants,
especially to A. F. Of L. workers, to
make Wednesday the great day in
/ the history of the auto workers.
Open meetings are being called for
Tuesday night by various Auto
Workers Union locals to decide the
question of strike action, to elect
strike committees and prepare for
mass picketing, and to elect dele
gates to the big united front con-
ference this Sunday, March rs, at
10 O'Clock at Carpathia Hall, $500
Elmwood.
The Auto Workers Union is also
addressing an open letter to work.
eIs of the Hudson Motor Products
and other plants, warning against
the tactics of the A. F. of L. Off
cials, who have already ditched de-
mandS for higher wages and an end
ID speed-up, centering everything
around the question of recognition.
thus preparing the ground for some
Tricky formula by johnson and
Roosevelt which would further stall
off strike action.
A meeting of department. repre-
sentatives of the Hudson A. F. of L.
local militants protested the aban-
donment by officials of wage and
speed-up demands contrary to in
structions.
AT the Hudson mass meeting yes
terday William Collins, A. F. of L.
organizer, talked about the strike
going forward, but that it would not
be fundamentally for better work.
Continued on Page y
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agreements to recognize the Taxi
Drivers Union of Greater New
York. About 5000 unionized cabs
of the settled companies and indie
pendent owners were rolling on the
streets yesterday under union con-
troll.
In an attempt to confuse and
demoralize the strike, LaGuardia' S
police went pell nell tearing union
stickers off the settled cabs. tits
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20
NeUdrkAFL EndOrSesW Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill


TOO members, in its meeting of
Monday, March IL, Endorsed the
Workers Bill Oh. r. 1899 and for
warded the resolution to its own
Congressman demanding immediate
enactment Of the Workers Bill Oh
r. 1899. The Westville local is
one of the largest in the U. M
w. A. The motion was unanimous.
Painters and Decorators Union of
Philadelphia independently has
passed a motion demanding that
the present session of Congress en-
act the Workers Bill III. R. 1881
The c. w. A. Workers Union of
Camden, N. j., Endorsed the Work
ers Unemployment Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20
Terminal and Parmelee
Companies Hire Thugs
at 81 Per Day

bers to the strike halls to help the
taxi men picket. The Food Work
ers' Industrial Union, along with
the Workers International Relief,
is assisting the Relief Committee
of the union to enlarge its relief
work. Relief is being distributed at
the Germania Hall, 10th st. and
Third Ave; Amalgamated Temple,
IL Areon Pl., Brooklyn, and the
Rockland Palace, Bronx. Seven
doctors have pledged to take care
of the sick drivers and their fam
lies free of charge during the
period of the strike.
Among the outstanding fighters
in the general strike are the Negro
drivers from the Parmelee Garage
at 141 Fifth Ave. "This is a Jim
Grow garage" said Sam Orner.
"One of the aims of our strike is to
stop jim Growing and discrimina-
ton of Negroes Strikers in the
various strike halls hailed the SUI
port given to the struggle to ,,..lL-
ize the taN industry by the Com
munist Party, trade unions and
CONTINUED on Pace ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20
5000 Unionized Cabs
of Settled Companies
Now on Streets
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
NEW YORK.-As we go to press,
union leaders are at the headquar-
tiers of the Regional Labor Board,
IS Broadway, where they were to
present terms of agreement to the
feet owners.
Samuel Orner, president of the
union, said: Eve will not back ND
one step. We demand that all
points in the agreement be recog-
nized by the owners"
None Of the feet owners, how
ever, were present at Mrs. Her
rick's Office when the union off,
cials arrived.
Meanwhile the Labor Commit
tee in Support of the Taxi Strike,
which was set up at the Confer
ence in Webster Hall Sunday, re-
ports that it is making prepara-
tions for a city-wide demonstra-
ton Of all workers in New York
to support the taxi strike, early
this week. The committee is hold
ing meeting early this morning
where the date and place of the
demonstration will be decided on.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20
Agreement Signed With 30
Small Taxi Fleet O,Uners

NEW YORK.-The following are
the points of the agreement signed
by the 80 small fleet owners which
settled with the Union:
l. The employers agree to recog-
nize the Taxi Cab Drivers Union of
Greater New York as the organiza-
ton representing employees.
2. The Union agrees to supply
from its union taxi cab drivers as
may be required by the employers
from time to time.
3. The employer shall employ
only members Of the union who are
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duly certified by the union as
members in good standing.
4. The employer agrees to recog-
nize one Of the members Of the
union in his or its employ as shop
chairman.
5. A dually authorized represen-
tative of the union shall have &C.
cess to the garage of the employer
at all hours when the garage is
opened and the employees are at
work, for the purpose of investigat-
Continued on Page y
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against the law to put stickers on
cabs" said a big cop in front Of
the Pennsylvania station. N. r. A.
stickers and stickers of the Anal
gamated Taxi Association, the lat
ter an organization which refused
to amalgamate with the Taxi
Drivers Union, are permitted on
cabs by the police.
The union is having cards printed
which the drivers will hang on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20

NEW YORK.-More victories for
the general taxi drivers strike were
chalked up yesterday when addi-
tional small fleet owners signed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20

dependent letter follows
Mr. VIM. Green, President,
American Federation of Labor
Washington d
and Brothers:
adopted by repre-
projects
trade locals addressing ourselves through the
Executive Council of the American Federation Labor
the nationwide the
proposal the administration qdae the Civil Works projects
As know, these projects provide the
livelihood several million workers in all parts the
other employment
support Among employed many
Federation affiliated discontinue
projects will millions destitute workers
completely destitute
policy administration by
President establishes principle which
interests of all workers According this policy
establish that they already will be entitled relief
and furthermore all who receive relief required
minimum
We feel further that this action Of the administration direct
employer
connection between this action
the of the administration the growing number of strikes
for increased against unions and for the right
organize into unions of the workers free choice.
We consider that this policy constitutes challenge to the entire
Labor Movement and to all in the United States
general protest
strike this point the
of bringing bear the administration We
cordngy call the resolution which
calls for the organization of hour strike Thursday
March 29, at pm" and to issue call for such strike
that expressing the the
organized other unions the this
proposal for vigorous determined action
GREATER CONFERENCE
PATRICK LEE, Chairman
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Hudson A. F. L. Local
Votes for Strike;
Others Join i'm
COLLINS TRICKERY
BallyhOO on Wage Rise
Not Pooling Workers
BULLETIN

DETROIT, Mich, March
19.-The Detroit city gov
eminent today Joined in eff
forts to smash the strike
action of the auto workers,
set for Wednesday, when
the Common Council voted
to appeal to Roosevelt to
prevent the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20
ty-Wide Demonstrations
Against the C.. w. A. Firing
.JObLeSS Demand AFL Executive
Endorse c. VA. Protest Strike

The following letter has been to the Executive Council
Federation Greater
for united action CWA and Unemployment The letter calls
for endorsement of the protest strike of March 20 demand
continuation initiated
by the united front conference Identical letters also being
Unity the executives Of all
dependent unions. letter follows
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