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The daily worker., 1934-04-30

Every steel worker in the countr
is looking toward this convention,
already the rumors of general strike
that have leaked out Of the con-
vention, are being discussed by steel
workers throughout the country. The
opposition must publish its program
now and call upon all the steel
workers to rally behind it and set
up the necessary committee and
organization to carry the program
through. If the opposition passiyely
waits until the end of the conven-
ton to take this action, it will be
too late. The capitalist press will
not publish the opposition state
ments after the convention, as read
lily as it will now.
The Daily Worker editorially COM
mented on the convention and
pointed out the danger of the Tighe
machine. even though it be a mi
nority, and called upon the opposi-
ton delegates to meet in caucus and
plan their action, so that every op-
position delegate will have clear
understanding of how to collectively
fight the Tighe machine, and force
through their program. But the
delegates are so confident that they
have Tighe beat already that they
so far have held only one caucus,
and Tfghe has now so arranged the
work of the Convention, so as to
make a caucus of the opposition
difficult to call. In the interests of
the rank and file the opposition
delegates must realize that no work
Of the convention is as important
as their caucus, and these caucuses
must be held regularly regardless of
what is left undone. 1t is danger
Gus to underestimate the cunning of
Mike Tighe, True, he is not as skill
full faker as John L. Lewis, but
nevertheless he has the counsel of
all these master-fakers at his COM
mand, and the delegates must be
ready to meet every move Of the
Tighe machine. This can only be
done through caucus meetings.
Opposition Demands
The opposition resolutions call for:
/. Six hour day-hve day week.
2. Fifty per cent basic wage in
crease.
8. Minimum 81 per day.
The daily worker., 1934-04-30

vinced themselves from their own
experience Of the degree to which
the Red international Of Labor
Unions was right, when day in and
day out it tried to prove that in
ternational reformism meant defeat
for the working class, that the
slogan Through Democracy to
Socialism" actually meant
through democracy to fascism, that
the trade union bureaucrats full
filled the social orders of the bour-
geoisie, organizing in all countries
fierce struggle against the revo-
lutionary trade union movement.
Workers.
Look at developing events. On
the one hand unemployment,
starvation, poverty, suicides, grow
ing prostitution, bloody fascist
terror, brutal exploitation - either
open or screened by democratic
phrases-this is the Dictatorship of
Capital, on the other hand-pros-
perity Of the national economy, the
absence of unemployment, the
growth of culture and improved
welfare OF the broad masses of work
ers and toilers-this is the Dictator
ship of the Proletariat
The Chinese soviets
On the one hand-the path Of
the Second and Amsterdam Inter
nationals, the path Of Germany
and Austria, on the other hand
the path of the Communist Inter
national and the Red International
Of Labor Unions, the path of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The path of Austria and Germany
or the Soviet path-this is how the
question is dictated by the course
Of the class struggle, this is how
it is dictated by developing events!
Every worker must seriously think
over these two paths. 1t depends
upon this-will the working class
rapidly march towards victory, to-
wards socialism, or viii it suffer
defeat after defeat, sacrifice after
sacrifice on the alter Of the domi-
nation Of r1onopolist capital?
The past year was an especially
stormy one in the development Of
The daily worker., 1934-04-30

the world revolutionary movement.
Side by side with the U. S, S. r.,
the Soviet Chinese Republic grows
and strengthens, uniting one-sixth
Of the Chinese territory with a
population of 5o,oO0,0O0; the work
ing class of Japan is rising for the
struggle against plundering Japan
ese imperialisrn-this provocateur
of war against the U. S. S. R.; the
broad masses Of India seethe with
hatred; the French proletariat re-
piled with a general strike to the
impudent attempts of the fascists
to seize the streets; the workers of
Austria took up arms, and despite
their Social-democrati leaders and
the strikebreaking policy of the
trade union bureaucrats, heroically
fought against the strong forces of
the enemy; the workers of Germany
carry on relentless struggle
against the bloody fascist reaction; !;
the workers of Spain, by means of
continuous gigantic strikes, shake
the bourgeois -landowning dictator
ship, which is covered by the ban
ner of the Socialist Party. The
working class of Cuba came forward
in the struggle against its foreign
and native exploiters, the workers
of the U. s. A., England, Poland,
the Balkan countries, of distant
Australia and Canada, are rising for
the struggle against the dictator
ship Of capital, against fascisrn and
imperialist war.
For Soviet Power
The higher the wave of revolu-
tionary resentment and wrath
amongst the masses. the lower do
the reforrnists bow their heads to
the power of capital Open be-
trayals and left cunning maneu-
vers-such is their policy in face of
growing fascism and the menace of
war.
However, in spite of thousands
upon thousands of betrayals and
open going over of the most out
standing leaders of the German
social-democrscy and trade union
bureaucrats Of Austria to the camp
Of the fascists, despite the daily
and hourly hetrsssls on tho pert
of the trade union brrsaucrst ts-in
England, France. the U. S. A., in
The daily worker., 1934-04-30

The Red International of Labor
Unions. world trade union center
OF the revolutionary workers, has
issued the following call to all
workers. to participate in the world
May First demonstrations:
WORKERS, WOMEN WORKERS.
YOUNG WORKERS OF THE
WHOLE WORLD!
Comrades! May 1st is approach
ing-our international Proletarian
Day Of Struggle against capitalist
oppression and violence.
This year May 1st will have spe-
cial significance in the development
Of the struggle of the international
proletariat for socialism. Never be-
fore has the world Of rapidly de-
veloping socialism been so sharply
counterposed to the world Of de-
caying capitalism. The wave Of rev.
olutionary upsurge is rising stormily.
In fear of the oncoming revolutions.
the bourgeoisie entrusts power to
the bitterest enemies of the work
ing classic the fsscists. Never
before has the terror against the
toiling masses been so fierce, never
before has the revolution been so
furious. Fascisrn browns in blood
the towns and villages Of the cap
italist countries! Fascism is rails
ing its head everywhere.
But, on the other hand, the work
ers of number of countries are
rising for counter-attack, the work
ers of France declare a general
strike, while the workers in Austria.
with rifle in hand, fight against
fascist tyranny. Anti-fascist DEM
onstrations are growing in all
countries. The bourgeoisie is con-
centrating all of its forces on sup
pressing the revolutionary ferment
in the masses. The imperialists are
preparing a war against one an
other, they are seizing foreign ter
ritories, as was done by Japanese
imperialism in China, they are pre-
pairing for er-revolutionarv
war against the Soviet Union and
are carrying on a war against the
toilers of their own countries.
What has fascism brought and
what does it bring to the toiling
masses9 In Germany fascism
The daily worker., 1934-04-30

promised all to all. What has it
really given2 Wage cuts, abolition
of social insurance, smashing of all
working-class organizations, bullets,
the hangmans axe and tortures for
toilers, and--billions of government
funds for trustified capital. The
same can be seen in Italy, Poland
and other countries.
In the Soviet Union
There is only one country in the
world, where there are no fascist
organizations and where there can
be none, where there is no medi-
eval reaction, because in this coun-
try there is no exploitation of Man
by man, because in this country
capitalism has been uprooted and
its last remnants are being elimi-
nated-this is the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics. That is why
the eyes Of all oppressed and down
trodden in the capitalist and colo
nial countries are turned towards
the land of the Proletarian Dicta-
torShip, where the working class
firmly holds the power in its hands
and builds socialism, despite and
against the international bourgeoisie
and its reformist lackeys.
And what does international re-
formism, in the person of the Second
and Amsterdam Internationals, do
in face of ferocious fascism, reac-
ton and the rage of monopolist
capital?
The Amsterdam International
which from the very first days of
its existence t1e19) waged a fierce
struggle against the working class
Of the U. s. S. r. and socialist con-
struction, which tried to dissuade
the workers from the path of revo-
luton, which sahotaged all econon-
ic and political action Of the work.
ing class, this International has
shown, by the examples of Germany
and Austria, where the policy of the
reformist trade union bureaucracy
leads.
Role Of Amsterdam
Gritting their teeth, with deep
hatred in their hearts the workers
of Germany and Austria now re-
member the policy Of their trade
union leaders. They have now con-
The daily worker., 1934-04-30

4. Abolition of the differential
North and South.
5. Recognition of the Union.
6. Equal rights for Negro workers
to hold any jobs without discrimi-
nation,
T. For immediate presentation of
these demands and strike action
One program presented calls for
the immediate setting up of local
strike committees to prepare for
strike. For the United Front of all
unions in steel. For close coopera-
ton with steel, auto and coal.
Against arbitration. For unity with
the unemployed. For unemploy-
ment insurance. And many other
practical proposals for preparations
Of the lodges for strike This pro-
gram was ruled out of order by
Tighe. But the opposition is fight
ing for its adoption.
Attention To Local Strikes
There is a dangerous tendency of
the opposition to base its perspec-
tive entirely on general strike, not
paying sufficient attention to the
necessary steps to set up this local
strike apparatus and develop local
strikes and broaden them into a
larger strike movement. The pos
sibility of a general steel strike un-
doubtedly exists, but it must not
be forgotten that out of 100000 steel
workers, only $4,000 are now or
ganized, and only If the organized
workers show proper initiative in
organizing and developing the strike,
will the unorganized workers re-
spond.
Another resolution before the con-
vention calls for the redrafting of
the constitution, along the lines of
industrial unionism, trade union
democracy, and strike struggle. This
resolution has the support of all
the opposition, and even some Of
the delegates from the old lodges
are also supporting it. The Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill,
Oh. r. 1899 was unanimously
adopted
The lodges of the Amalgamated
Association must Immediately begin
the setting up of broad strike COM
mittees to prepare for action. Time
The daily worker., 1934-04-30
Newspaper Tied Up
By Pittsburgh
MaiIerS' Strik e
Union Official Herds
Scabs for Three
Publishers

PITTSBURGH, Fa., April 20
The Pittsburgh Mailers Union No,
% in defiance of the International
officers and the N. r. A. Board at
Washington, D. C., last Wednesday
voted to strike Immediately and
Friday the three newspapers Of
Pittsburgh were tied up tight by
the $50 mailers. A wage cut had
been forced upon the mailers re-
ducing their weekly wages from
S37 to S29 with the understanding
that it would be returned at the
expiration of the agreement on No
vember 1st and a new agreement
reached based on the return Of the
wage scale to $37 per week,
The proposal of the publishers
and international officials which
has dragged out since November in
the most secret manner is to con-
tinue the agreement on the basis
of the wage cut and to "arbitrate' =
all differences that arise. The pa
tience Of the mailers was exhausted
and they struck IN spite OF tele-
grams from Hugh Johnson.
The first scab paper that ap-
peared in the streets carried a
strikebreaking statement of Munro
Roberts, secretary-treasurer Of the
Mailers Trade District Union.
Latest reports were that the
newspaper publishers have agreed
to give in to some of the demands of
the strikers, restoring the ten per
cent wage cut.
The daily worker., 1934-04-30
Electrical Workers
Win Strike Under
S.M.L.U. Leadership
Defeat Bosses Attempts
To Bring in A. FL.
Misleaders

CHICA 80, Ill, April 2s.--After
five days of strike under the lead
ership Of the Steel and Metal Work
ers Industrial Union. the workers
Of the Harvard Electrical Company,
have won 40 per cent increases in
Day. an agreement to rehire all
strikers without discrimination a
recognized shop committee elected
by the workers, as we'll as 48-
aour week instead of the 81.
During the strike the employers
tried to break the ranks of the
workers by urging them to leave
the s. M. w I. U. and Join the A.
F. Of L. Attempts were made to
whip up white chauvinism against
the Negro workers, The attempts
failed.
The leadership of the strike has
won great authority not only among
the workers in the Harvard plant
but also among the workers from
the nearby shops
The daily worker., 1934-04-30
SmithtieLd Miners
Strike Against Firing
OF TwO " Orkers

sMITHFIELD. Ohio-Seventy-
five miners walked out on strike
last week against the firing Of
two miners at the Merrill Sons
Coal Co. Despite threats from
officials Of the U.M.WA. and an
N. R A. arbitrator, who terror
ized the strike committee to con-
sent to return to work, the work
ers voted to strike until the two
men were rehired.
PINEY FORK, Ohio.-Over
900 miners, betrayed by a rep
resentative of John L. Lewis,
president of the UMW.A., re-
turned to work today at the
Hanna Coal Co. The miners had
walked out 100 per cent in pro-
test against the use of battery
lamps, furnished by the COM
pany. The company makes big
profit on these lamps.
The daily worker., 1934-04-30
Opposition in A. 4. Contention Must
Prepare for Strike ActiOn in Steel Mills
Caucus Should Defeat
Tighe's Maneuvers
For Delay

must not be lost waiting for the
Of the convention. The
program of action will be adopted,
but Tighe viii maneuveI to delay
and sabotage the preparations for
the strike.
The old constitution calls for q
on all the resolutions
adopted by the Convention. This
will give Tighe room to msneuver
indefinitely. And Tighe with the
power of appointing his own COM
mittee to count the returns on the
referendum can and will, unless he
is stopped, veto in this manner the
entire convention. The convention
must see to it that it sets up the
apparatus to count the returns.
The rank and file must not
wait for the outcome of the
referendum. The overwhelming
majority of all steel workers are
for immediate action to improve
their conditions and to establish
the right to organize. The sub
lodges Of the A. a. and the un-
organized workers throughout the
industry must Immediately begin
to set up their strike apparatus.
The opposition delegates must
organize themselves as the lead
ership of a national opposition Of
the rank and file in the Amalga-
mated Association and be prepared
TO give leadership to the coming
strikes, and to consolidate the
growing revolt of the rank and
file against the reactionary A. F.
L. OfficisldOm.
The Steel and Metal Workers
Union has issued the united front
appeal to the Convention and calls
upon all the delegates to support
this call for unity.
The daily worker., 1934-04-30
Two Bathrobe Shops
Strike; Leader jailed

NEW York; the 18 shops
so far stopped in the campaign
initiated by the bathrobe workers
for higher wages, shops have
been formally declared on strike.
These are the shops Of Goldstein,
1853 Thatford Ave, Brooklyn, and
Berman g. Garfinkel, l Chester
Street. Brooklyn.
In both Of these shops, the en-
ployers refuse to grant the demands
Of the workers, and have secured
the help of the International to
break the strikes.
In an attempt to smash the
strike, police arrested Ben Stall
man. organizer Of the Bathrobe
Workers Union and four strikers.
The strikers were placed under
.s.saap h-n
The daily worker., 1934-04-30

The circulation Of the Daily
Worker in this automobile center
could easily be tripled if every class
conscious worker follows Comrads
Chasson's revolutionary example.
Ask your friends and shopmates
to subscribe to the Daily"
Order a bundle Of the Daily
Worker for sele at q factory gets
in your territory, at meetings O.
your trade union. mass organization
or fraternal bodv
The daily worker., 1934-04-30
Wants daily Rooted
Among Masses; Acts
To Help Achieve This

DETROIT, Nich.-W. Chasson, of
this city wants to see the Daily
Worker circulation expanded 50 that
our paper will attain tremendous
revolutionary influence among the
working class masses.
Unlike many comrades who have
The daily worker., 1934-04-30

hil6 same GeSlre
but do little OF
nothing to help
a c h hieve this
Comrads Chas-
son makes it his
r e volu tionary
task to sell 25
copies Of the
Daily" every
day.
D uring the
SuD-Qr1Ye ne 0D-
tanned new sub
S c ip t / on (
amounting to 6h
-earlv subs.
The daily worker., 1934-04-30
Protest Bronx Eviction

Down tools May 1st! Rally the
fight against the N.R.A.'s attacks
on living standards and workers
organizations.
The daily worker., 1934-04-30
5000 Camden Radio
Workers Win Ten
PerCentWageRaiSe
Strike Activity Rises In
Philadelphia and
Camden

CAMDEN. N. IA general 10 per
cent wage increase for 5000 workers
employed in the r. c. A.-Victor
plant here was won last Tuesday,
led by the Radio and Metal Work
ers' Union. who represented 3,40O
employed members Of the plant.
During the negotiations the plant
management refused to negotiate
with the company union
Bosses Attempt to Intimidate
Campbell Soup Workers
CAMDEN. N. Trying to in
timidate the 1900 strikers of the
Campbell Soup Co, who are out for
higher wages and union recogni-
ton, into a company union, Arthur
c. Dorrance, president of the COM
pany, demanded that the National
Labor Board, working in a con-
cealed hand-in-hand manner with
the company officials, hold a
framed-up poll of workers in an at
tempt to push aside the Industrial
Cannery workers Union.
Knitgoods, Shoe and Auto Workers
Fight for Demands
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. activity
among Philadelphia workers brews
militantly. One hundred and twenty
workers of the Samuel Baylin Shoe
Co. wnt on strike last Thursday in
order to prevent the company from
breaking its contract with the
United Sho and Leather Workers
Union.
On the same day, the CONNER
cisl Auto Body Workers Union, at
a mass meeting. voted to strike for
the demands of union recognition
and a closed shop in the CONNER
cial Auto Body Shops of Philadel-
phia. The Finnessey Body, pre-
sented with the demands of the
workers, agreed to them, giving the
workers a closed union shop.
Meanwhile the striking knitgoods
workers of Philadelphia are still
picketing the Majestic Mill, the
Booth Coane Mill the Superior Mill
despite the rising terror from police
and gangSters.
The daily worker., 1934-04-30
Boston JObIeSSStOp
,WinReIief
Rally for May LIST
Unemployed to Mass
at Home Relief Buro
at 9 A. NJ. Today

BOSTON, Mass, April %. - A
delegation today stopped the evic-
ton Of Silverstein, member Of the
Furniture Workers Industrial Union,
and his family, and forced the We'll
fare Board to grant relief. Silver
stein, whose mother is aged and i'll,
applied many times for aid, then
he got a C.W.A. job which lasted
few weeks, but was unable to get
anything - the relief authorities
promised to investigate his case, but
nothing was done.
Wednesday he got a notice that
he would be put out the next day.
He got in touch with his Union #.
W.IU.) and delegation with Jack
Mccarthy, organizer of the Union,
Alice Burke, Secretary of the Un-
employment Council, Manuel Blanc,
North End Workers Club, and Sill
verstein, went to demand stoppage
Of the eviction and immediate aid.
Several thugs lined up and tried
to stop the committee from going
in to see Silverstein's investigator,
Mr.. Phipps. While in the room,
Silverstein was being showed aside
and intimidated by a plainclothes
man. With no results, Silverstein
was told to leave, and the police
officers tried to force the whole dele
CATION outside. But the delegation
insisted, and after talking in the
corridors with several workers who
we're waiting for aid, the authorities
we're forced to see the delegation.
Mr.. Kelly, one Of the big chiefs of
the welfare, was forced to call up
and stop the eviction, promised to
get a truck and move Silverstein
as soon as he found good rooms. and
promised immediate relief.
The May Day parade will start
at Prince and Hanover Sts. at IL
am. and will go past the Welfare
Bureau on Hawkins Street and will
call on the Relief Workers to join
in the march to demand relief to
all, local relief stations, extension
of ERA. jobs, for the passage of
Unemployment Insurance Bill HR.
1898. These will be some of the
most important demands to be
presented to Governor Ely after the
parade and demonstration on the
Boston Common at IL noon.
Protest Bronx Eviction
NEW YORK The Relief Work
ers League calls for a demonstration
at 9 am. this morning at the Ener-
gency Home Relief Bureau Webster
and 188th Street, Bronx, to protest
against the brutal eviction of Fortios
Vassolarides, unemployed worker
and world war veteran, from his
rooms at 6S1 E. 189th st.
VaSsolarides' wife, at present, is at
the Morrisania Hospital. G. w. A.,
workers in the vicinity and the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League
have pledged their support to Vas
solarides. TIL e Relief Workers
League calls upon all workers to
protest against this eviction.
The daily worker., 1934-04-30
Role of Amsterdam

Gritting their teeth, with deep
hatred in their hearts. the workers
of Germany and Austria now re-
member the policy Of their trade
union leaders. They have now con-
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to keep pace with the increase in
expenditures. rising from 1910, 400. :
SAB a year ago to s553.55O.I1s in the
first two months Of the current ifs
cal year.
This left a deficit so far this year
of Sass, 422 1863, compared with 1922
358,915 a year ago.
More than half off this year 5
expenditures to date were &C
counted for by emergency" OUTLAWS
in which were included expenditures
Of S267,841 1873 for emergency relief
alone.
From the record high gold re-
sources of S7,9S3. 389 $40 reported on
Aug. 20, the gold resources of the
treasury had fallen to 1854. 744 ,52l
on Sept. 4, a loss of Si8.645.02l.
The loss in government gold hold
ings was believed the consequence
Of the recent weakness of the
American dollar in the world
markets, which has necessitatec
American exports of the metal tc
keep the American dollar "pegged'
in foreign exchange markets at its
new value of Is 5-21 grains of gold
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Gets Federal Post

Scott r. Brewer. former president
Of the defunct State Savings and
Trust Company which now is un-
der investigation. has been named
assistant director of the Federal
Housing Administration in Wash
ington.
His most recent connection has
been manager of the real estate de-
partment of the Kentucky Title and
Trust Company. Louisville.
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BANK BANDITS
CAR is FOUND
Suspect Leads Police on
Trail Followed in West
field Raid.

Police today continued to search
for the second bandit who partici-
pated in daring $1,000 holdup OF
the Union State bank. Westfeld,
Ind. Tuesday. confident that IL
Raymond Tyrrell. 81. they had one
of the pair.
Tyrrell is said by police to have
confessed.
Yesterday afternoon, 1t was
learned at police headquarters, Tyr
rell accompanied four detectives on
trip along the route alleged to
have been taken by the bandits on
their flight from the scene Of the
holdup to Indianapolis.
The detectives said that. while