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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Hold Carriers
Fight forUnion
On Relief Job
Centralia, ILL.,, Workers
Demand Full Rates for
Street Paving
Special TO the DAILY Worker,

CENTRALIA, Ill, Dec. 20.-A
general sympathy strike may de-
velop by tomorrow here, in support
of the demands Of the Hold Carriers
Union, that street paving projects
should be worked with union men,
at union rates. The city authorities
are attempting to pave the streets
with relief labor, having placed so
men from the relief rolls to work
under police guard.
The Central Trades Council, on
Tuesday, called a strike on the
paving projects demanding u cents
per hour and control of the job by
the Hod Carriers Union. The I'M
employed organizations in this city
are intellectually behind the hod
carriers demands.
The Trades Council issued a
warning yesterday that unless the
demands are granted a gener al
strike of all unions in the city, in
GLIDING the two locals of the United
Mine Workers will follow within two
days. The workers in the city are
displaying splendid spirit Of soli-
darity fully determined to carry out
their decision.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21

operative" sweat shops are b Vein g
picketed at the same time, union
leaders declared.
Strikers Call for Support
Delegations of workers also Wis
tied shoe stores selling the products
of these shops and called on them
to stop buying sweat shop mer-
chandise. Some have responded
favorably.
Workers of numerous shops and
factories are registering their re-
sentiment to these methods Of the
manufacturers by extending their
support to the Colonial workers.
The following solut ion was
adopted yesterday by the workers
Of the Diana Shoe Company, the
Warner Shoe Company and the
Prime Shoe Company, all Of Brook
Ign, N. Y:
I'VE, the shoe workers of Diana,
Warner and Prime Shops, assem-
bled at a meeting on Dec 7, 1884,
unanimously denounce the action of
the Colonial Shoe Co. employers for
locking out over $50 workers by
moving their plant to Jersey City,
N. j., in order to escape the exist
ing union agreement and to under
mine the living standards in the
industry through the employment
of cheaper labor
1--WE further denounce the I'M
heard of demands of these employ
ers who, as a condition of employ
ment, propose not only reduction
in wages, but also stipulate that
each employee must buy shares to
the amount between 500 and $500.
1--WE further denounce the Jersey
City landlords and the city authori-
ties who give shelter and assistance
to such manufacturers.
1--WE the shoe workers of Diana,
Warner and Prime Shops, realizing
that the heroic struggle of the
Colonial strikers is our struggle,
their victory our victory, therefore
pledge to our union, the Unit e d
Shoe and Leather Workers Union,
and to the Colonial strikers, our
moral, physical and financial sup
port until the final victory.
1--WE further call upon the work
ers of the Boot and Shoe Workers
Union and the United, as well as
the workers of different industries,
organized and unorganized, to sup
port the Colonial strikers in their
struggle.
Copies of this resolution to be
sent to the N. R. A., to labor organi-
cations. Jersey City authorities, and
Colonial strikers.
The Shop c o m m ttee OF
Diana Warner and Prime
Shoe Shops
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21

less than 81 hundred pounds and
pledged full support to the striking
textile workers in the Black Belt,
frightfully, the A.AA. officials in
Washington feared the following ad-
mission: "The southern tenant prob
lem, involving both Negro and white,
has caused the A.A.A. trouble since
the first cotton reduction program
in 1885,"
The Share Choppers Union has
drawn up petition opposing the
continuation of the Bankhead Act
for 1885 and demanding that it be
repealed. The petition also has the
purpose of securing signatures. The
signatures will operate as votes
against the Act. The Share Crop
pers Union is preparing to send a
delegation of sharecroppers, tenants,
farmers and farm workers to Wash
ington to place before the Wash
ington officials the following de-
mands:
l. Discrimination of the Bank
head Act in 1925, Repeal.
2. Immediate cash and adequate
winter relief for all poor farming
people in need Of food, clothing and
other necessities.
8. Repeal the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Drops
Pay Minimum
In Arizona
Attorney-General Rules
State Law Does Not
Apply to Projects

PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 20.-Ari-
zona's minimum wage law does not
apply to public works jobs on which
Federal Emergency Relief Adnini-
stration Funds are used, Attorney
General Arthur T. LaPrade ruled
last week in an opinion addressed
to T. H. O'Brien, chairman Of the
State Welfare Board.
An earlier opinion made by the
Encouragement held that because
F. E. r. A. money became State re-
lief funds after ALLEGATION by the
Federal government, wages were to
be paid in accordance with the
State minimum wage law, which
provides for so cents an hour on all
Public Works projects.
LaPrade's reversal came after a
conference with Governor B. B.
Moeur, ex-Klansman (who ordered
police to attack the picket line Of
striking F. E. r. A. workers two
months ago., and Florence Warner
and T. H. O'Brien, who represented
the F. E. r. A. and the State We'll
fare Board of Arizona.
LaPrade's decision to abandon F.
E. r. A. minimum wages in Arizona
follows a recent order by F. E. r. A.
Administrator Harry L. Hopkins,
who ruled that the 80 cents an hour
minimum rates no longer apply to
work relief jobs. Immediately fol-
lowing Hopkins order, relief wages
were slashed in many States in the
South.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Support in Struggle
On Evictions Sought
In Canvassing Drive

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 90
Every militant working class or
ganization here is modifying its
forces to canvass every home in the
Philadelphia area on Sunday, Dec.
%, in the fight against evictions and
to enlist the widest possible support
for the National Congress for IN
employment Insurance. Already the
Unemployment Councils, the Com
munist Party and various language
and cultural groups have swung
their entire membership into line
for the day set apart by the coun-
ellis as Anti-Eviction Day.
All workers centers have been set
up as supply stations at which
workers have been requested to ap-
ply for material on the National
Congress-tag day collection boxes,
supporters stamps, and other mate
rial--leaf1ets setting forth the fight
against the evictions which hover
over thousands of the unemployed
here, and supplies of the Daily
Worker ballot for the Workers I'm
employment Insurance Bill. Wide
distribution of the postcards de-
handing enactment of the Workers
Bill and to be sent to President
Roosevelt is also planned.
Canvassing OF the working class
homes by the Unemployment Coun-
ellis will call upon all employed and
unemployed workers to join the
councils in the fight for increased
relief and for the passage of a city
ordinance against evictions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Bayonne Anti Fascists
ROut Khaki Shirt Group
Who Try To Hold Rally

BAYONNE, N. j., Dec. 20.-Eight
carloads of Khaki Shirts, bearing
out of town license plates, who were
scheduled to hold their first public
meeting in Bayonne Monday night,
were greeted by a heavy lock on
the door leading to their meeting
place and by determined group of
counter demonstrators led by the
Bayonne Branch of the American
League Against War and Fascism.
Members of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars and Anti-Fascist workers
united to keep the fascists from
securing a meeting hall and routed
them out of town.
The day before the meeting Khaki
Shirts had spread several thou
sands of leaflets throughout Bay
onne calling upon the general public
to attend the first public mass
meeting of the Khaki Shirts of
America, Inc.," which was to be
addressed by representatives from
other branches throughout New
Jersey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Five-Day Mine Strike
Ended in Renton, Pa.

RENTON, Pa, Dec. 20-Seven
hundred and fifty miners employed
by the Union Galleries Coal Co. here
ended a five-day strike this week
with submission of their grievance
the demand for daylight shift for
one section of the mine which had
been ordered to work nights in vio-
lation of the contract--to the dis
trict and National Labor Board.
The contract provides that single
shifts shall work daylight, but U.
M. w. A. district representatives
appeared at a meeting Sunday and
advised the men to return to work
under the company's order.
The miners forced the company,
however, to promise to suspend the
practice of deducting back rent
from the pays of miners working
part time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Negro Farmer Asks
Aid Against Landlord
To Protect Earnings

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. 20
The local office of the International
Labor Defense has received an ap-
peal from Ruben Norwood, a Ne
gro share cropper of Greenvilie,
Miss, to help him against the rob-
berry Of his crops and violation of
his contract by his landlord, o. j.
Dunn, Of the same town.
Norwood, who has family of
seven to support, was promised
wages of S13 a month for the labor
Of his family on the landlords
crops, and received that amount for
five months. Now, however, the
landlord has discontinued the wages
and, in addition, seized all of the
cotton and part of the corn raised
by the Norwoods on the plot they
cultivate on a crop-sharing basis.
The landlord also claims that the
Norwoods owe him balance of So,
thus tying the family to the land
lords lands, as under the Mississippi
law share cropper cannot leave
his landlord while owing him
money.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Relief Worker Killed
In Pit By Landslide

CORNING, N. Y, Dec. 20.-Un-
dermanning of a relief project here
caused the death of James Garrett,
42-year-old worker and father of
five children, living at 397 Wood
view Avenue, and injuries to Ray
mond Fish and Robert Northrup.
The three were caught in a land
slide at the Deckerton gravel pit
last week. Great indignation has
been aroused among the men, who
claim that they were forced to do
the work that required fifty men
with only fifteen.
Gornett was caught under twenty
five tons of frozen earth when the
side of the pit in which the men
were working caved in, his chest
was crushed in and his lungs pune
tured by the slide. Raymond Fish
was showed under a truck by the
frozen earth and suffered bad
bruise on his hip. Both he and
Northrup, who was also injured,
were badly shocked.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21

Law.
The prosecution, in Directing to
the quotation, which was put in the
form Of question by the defense
to prospective juror, declared that
1t was for their advocacy Of this
right that the defendants were be-
ing tried. The quotation cited from
tn Declaration Of Independence
declares:
That whenever any form of
Government becomes destructive
Of these ends" the rights Of the
people, ut is the Right Of the
People to alter OF to abolish II,
and to institute new Government,
laying its foundation on such
principles and organizing its pow
ers in such form, as to them shall
seem most likely to effect their
Safety and Happiness"
Judge Dial M. Lennon upheld the
objection Of the prosecution and
again emphasized the role of the
courts as a bulwark of capitalist
oppression of the majority of the
population by modifying the quo
tation from the Declaration Of In
dependence by inserting the word
lawfully" before abolish.
Leo Gallagher, International
Labor Defense attorney, questioned
prospective jurors in the fifth spe-
cial panel called on tuesday,,
whether they would be prejudiced
against defendants if they found
that defendants advocated the use
Of force by the working class
against the illegal violence of city
and county authorities ainst
workers on strike for better coudi-
tions. TIL prosecution objected,
but was overruled by the court,
marking the first ruling by Judge
Lennon in favor of the defense.
Although two regular jury panels
and four special panels have been
exhausted, the jury is far fir ON
selected. The prosecution has chal-
lenged every worker or p ossib1e
sympathizer on the panels, while
the defense has fought relentless
battle against the attempts of the
prosecution to get police officers
and stool pigeons on the jury.
Sacramento papers today heralded
the presence of Red" Hynes Of the
notorious Los Angeles police Red
Squad" who is expected to give
expert" testimony on Communist
activities in California.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
800 Workers Leave
German Labor Front

DORTMUND, Germany, Dec. 90.
How the fascist Labor Front" is
being battered down by decisive
strike action on the part of the
workers is admitted in the last is
sue of the Westfaelische zeitung,
Nazi sheet.
A total of 800 workers employed
in a metal working factory of Dort-
mund drew up a series of demands
for better conditions and laid them
before the management. The man
agement refused to consider them,
and the workers resigned in a body
from the German Labor Front. The
conflict took on such proportions
that the authorities fastened in
alarm to call in the district man
ager of the Labor Front. 1t was
found that the factory had no
cloakroom or toilet facilities, that
the workers were obliged to eat
near their benches, etc. AS a sop
to the workers, the district manager
caused the technical manager of
the factory to be arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Unemployed Leader
Arrested i'm Kenosha

KENOSHA, Wis, Dec. 20.-Mike
Kunza, militant leader of the Ken
osha Relief Workers Association,
was railroaded to 80 days in the
County Jail by Municipal Judge
Calvin Stewart, at the conclusion
of his trial last Friday.
Kunza had been arrested twice
in recent weeks on "disorderly con-
duct" charges, for fighting for
decent relief. He had gone to the
clothing department in the court
house to see that those waiting for
clothing were being properly cared
for. The police, in each case, had
not dared to arrest him in the
presence of the workers waiting in
line, but waited to get him alone.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Shoe Workers Rally
For Concerted DriUe
On Runaway Shops
Members of Shoe Union Expose Move to Institute
Form of Old Class Collaboration Plan

Runaway shops" are not only
moving to other cities to avoid
operating under union conditions
but are forcing their employees to
buy between 500 and $500 of COM
pany shares as a condition of en-
ployment, members of the United
Shoe and Leather Workers Union
have proved to the New york
Regional Labor Board.
At hearing before the New York
Regional Labor Board Monday, one
of these combined schemes as
practised by the Colonial Shoe
Company Inc, of Jersey City was
exposed by delegation of strikers
headed by I. Rosenberg, secretary of
New York Local 20 of the United
Shoe and Leather Workers Union,
independent.
Firm Moved From Brooklyn
The company, the delegation had
shown, had violated its agreement
with the union by moving its plant
from Brooklyn, N. Y, where it
operated as the Colonial Shoe Com
pany.
The firm tried to show that the
old concern is no longer in exist
ence and that the New Jersey Col
onial plant has nothing to do with
the Colonial Company in Brooklyn,
The union, represented by Attorney
Joseph Tauber, proved that the Jer-
sey Colonial corporation has the
same officers as the Brooklyn COM
pany and that the shares issued by
the concern, as cooperative" shop,
is nothing else but a job buying
scheme.
The latter part of the scheme,
which makes buying shares in the
cooperative" a condition of en-
ployment, according to union repre-
sentatives, and supposedly makes
the workers partners" in the bust
ness, is nothing but a worse form
of the old American plan"
Moved to Escape Union
The motive was clearly established
that the firm has gone through the
change in name and moved to Jer-
sey City in order to pay lower prices
and operate an open shop.
The strike against the company,
in which more than a hundred and
fifty workers are involved, is con-
tinuing full force and regular pick
citing is taking place.
simultaneously the union has
been conducting a strike for sixteen
weeks for similar reasons in the
run away" shops Of the Restfull
Slipper Company in Jersey City, and
in the Feifer Slipper Company Of
Summit, N. j., for the last four
weeks. Both companies recently
moved from Brooklyn. All Co
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Youth Congress Plans
Pushed i'm Cleveland

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 20.-A
Cleveland Arrangements Committee
of six members was set up here by
the recent Regional Youth Congress
to push plans for the National
Youth Congress to be held at Wash
ington, D. c., Jan. and 6.
The local Congress voted to send
large delegation to the National
Congress at which representatives
of hundreds of thousands of youth
will meet to put into action the
program adopted at the first Amer
lean Youth Congress, against war
and fascism, militarization of youth
in the colleges and c. C. C. Camps,
industrial discrimination and the
slashing of educational appropria-
tons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21

maneuVerS 10 stem the Tide OF votes
cast in favor Of Charley Nolker,
rank and file candidate for presi-
dent.
Miners report that in Logans Fer
ry, scene of last summers strike,
where Pagan revoked a charter and
then set up new local under APP
pointed officials to blacklist forty
one militants, the entire vote was
thrown out. One hundred and fifty
ballots over the number Of voters
were stuffed into the box by Lewis
men to disqualify the local vote.
Three To One for NoIker
Tcllers of CurtisYille No. 3, where
Nolker holds the Office of local
union chairman, told of an attempt
by q crowd of drunken Lewis
hangers-o n to break into the union
hall while the votes were being tab
ulated. Nolker's local registered 149
votes for him and only At ballots
for Pagan.
Many outlying locals we're still to
be heard from, but of the thirty To-
cal unions where results have been
obtained, and which include most
of the larger mines of the district,
well over three-to-one majority
Of the vote favored Nolker and the
rank and file slate.
Sworn duplicates of Is locals gave
Nolker 4,272 votes to only 1887 for
Pagan, but in the face of this the
Lewis candidate brazenly an
nounced to the press, before the
counting of votes had begun, that
the entire slate of Lewis incumbents
had been returned to Office by ma
joritieS as high as 5000"
The rank and file committee is
we'll aware that Pagan will use every
trick known to the Lewis election
stealers, from the ringing in of
blue sky" locals to outright altera-
ton of ballots, to return himself to
Office, but this time he will face a
complete, notarized check-up to
show that majority was registered
by Nolker.
How well grounded were John L.
Lewis's fears that any candidate of
the rank and file might GUST him if
allowed to appear on the interna-
tional ballot, is shown in the ex-
tremely low vote cast for president
in large locals of the fifth district.
Totals of IA, %, IL, were common
in the tabulated results of local
unions with memberships of $50,
600 and 460.
This mass boycott OF the interna-
tional presidential balloting is a
striking indication of the far-reach-
ing resentment against Lewis's
long-term sell out reign, which one
miner expressed by scribbling mo
want you" under the U. M. w. czar's
lone candidacy.
The next meeting of the rank and
file committee will be held on Dec.
30 in Ellsworth, when a final check
up on the district vote will be pos
slble.
The Pagan machine takers have
been invited to appear and partici-
pate in a debate at the Ellsworth
meeting, and miners from all over
the district are looking forward to
the occasion. The last public ap-
pearance of Pagan at meeting OF
the Vesta local union prior to the
election was almost disastrous for
49, .J;et ,int y1rae{dent
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CARLY RETURNS INDICATE VICTORY FOR MINERS CANDIDATE
u. S. Attorney
Calls For War
On Militants
Talks at Phoenix Club ;
Asks Outlawing of
Communism

PHOENIX, Ariz, Dec. 20.-Call-
ing for use Of forceful measures
against the militant workers in Ariz-
ona, Frank E. Flynn, deputy United
States attorney, told members Of
the "Dons' Club" that insidious
work was being done by the agents
Of Communism.
ANY movement that has cap
tured one-sixth Of the worlds land
cannot be ignored, however unsym-
pathetic we may be in America"
Flynn said. THE Communists will
stop at nothing to attain their goal,
unless they are curbed by forceful
methods
The club voted to authorize its
board of directors to prepare formal
endorsement Of tn e movement
against Communism, as launched
locally by the Phoenix Chamber of
Commerce and other fascist civic
groups.
U S. Attorney Flynn has devoted
himself to a number Of addresses
before local clubs and lodges on the
dangers Of Communism. The State
Committee Of the Communist Party
has issued several challenges to him
to debate the issue with an official
representative of the Party. This
has been refused on the grousds
that Mr.. Flynn prefers to speak
before his own audience and the
Communists can speak before
theirs"
PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 20.-A
course in THE Evils and Practices
OF Communism" has been offered
for the second semester at the
Brophy College in Phoenix, which
is operated by the Catholic Church.
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PACE TO SPEAK

DETROIT, Dec. 20.-The meeting
of the recent relief cuts and the
significance of the coming National
Congress for Unemployment and
Social Insurance will be discussed
by John Pace, secretary of the
Michigan District of the Unemploy-
nlent Councils on Sunday at 2:30
pm. at the Workers Open Forum,
1869 14th Ave, near McGraw. His
subject will be: which Way Out
for the Unemployed"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21

A. Immediate passage of Farmers
Emergency Relief Bill.
5. Equal right for Negroes.
6. For the right of all poor farm
ers in the South to organize.
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benefit of the Workers School
Songs by the "Bratstvo" singers
and by popular Negro quartet, and
sketches from "Stevedore" by the
Workers Theatre League will be
part of the program.
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WHAT'S ON
Philadelphia, Pa.


Corliss Lamont will lecture on THE
Soviet Union and Religion" Friday,
Dec a. p. m. at Musicians Hall,
100 N. 18th st. Admission 3oc at
door.
Mass Meeting and send off for Dele
gates to National Congress for So
cial and Unemployment Insurance,
Friday, Dec. 20, 8 pm. at Broadway
Arena, Broad and Christian streets.
Speakers: Herbert Benjamin, Mother
Bloor William N. Jones, Freihet &C.
sangs Farein, workers Harmonica
Band.
H. NJ. wICKs lectures on "origin
and Evolution of Religion" Friday,
8 pm. sharp at Workers School Fo-
rum, sos Chestnut. This is a Marx
ist-Leninist analysis of this question.
Admission Csc. Unemployed loc.
Detroit, Mich.
Dance at Rainbow Gardens" 6515
Chene St., Friday evening. Dec. 81.
Jimmie Davenport and his l3-piece
Harlem Orchestra will play for
dancing from 8 pm. until dawn.
Auspices, scottsboro Defense Comm.
Chicago, I'LL.
PROF. LAWRENCE MARTIN of
Northwestern University will speak
at zen ana hammer FOIufn, AZ =.
Ontario ST., Chicago, on Sunday eve
ming, Dec 23, at pm. His subject
is: "Read-But Don't Believe"-an
analysis of Chicago newspapers. Ad-
mission Is cents.
Rochester, N. Y.
INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE
concert and dance Saturday Dec.
a. pm. at Lithuanian Hall, SIS
Joseph Ave, to celebrate opening
permanent office by LID. Subscrip-
ton Is cents.
Cleveland, Ohio
Hear the Auvllle's Entertainment
and Dance, Sunday, Dec %, pm.
at 920 E. 10th st. Aus. Sec. CP.
NeWark, N. j.
Michael Sold will lecture on THE
Crisis in Modern Literature" at Jack
London Club, 90i Broad St.. Friday,
Dec. al, $50 pm. Adm. 25c. CUES
tions and discussion will follow.