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mously rejected by the men, who
knew that this would mean intimi-
dalton, coercion and could not be
democratically conducted.
Later on. due to the militancy of
the men, LaGuardia and the feet
owners agreed to hold plebiscite
before the strike was over, but
when the news came that Green,
president of the A. F. of L. had
signed the Roosevelt agreement in
the automobile industry legalizing
company unions, LaGuardia turned
about fare and like the obedient
servant of General Motors-which
he is-refused to live up to the
agreement.
The attack of the Socialist
Party leadership on 0rE,c and
Gilbert on this question further
showed their complete support of
the A. F. of L. rnisiease~s and the
company union policy Of the
General Motors.
WHEN the militant leaders decided
VI to call a meeting OF the rank
and file of the hackmen to organize
the garage chairmen and bring the
whole question before them in order
to discuss all of the problems and
tactics democratically, Immediately
the Socialist Party leaders got busy
and called joint council meeting
in which these lighting leaders were
in the minority, and, without even
notifying them, announced in the
capitalist press that Orner, Gilbert
and Cantor are expelled.
Already the hackmen have an
swered on this question and two
special meetings called by the Man
haitian Local endorsed the policy
of Orner and Gilbert and temporary
headquarters have been set up al
131 West 28th st.
The union is calling further meet
ingS of the Manhattan and also
preparing to call meetings of the
Bronx and Brooklyn men to put all
the questions before them and tC
prevent the hackmen from getting
into the hands of any racketeerinl
elements and into the hands of the
/ sell-out experts of the A. F. of L.
! The rank and file Socialist Part,
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those who belong to the Portland
Relief Workers Protective Associ-
alton. We are accepting the chal-
lenge.
Our very liberal city officials are
using all kinds of tricks to intimi-
date and demoralize the workers.
They spread rumors that our lead
ers are being paid $50 week,
though they know it is a lie.
Under the pretense that he is
being paid a salary by the Associ-
alton, Mother" Waldo stopped Ms.
relief for a whole week. His wife
has been visited and told to keep
her husband away from the Associ-
alton.
They are sending investigators to
public places, and when they find
an unemployed in a 10 cents movie
house. they report him to the poor
department, where his relief is being
cut for the terrible sin of watching
q show Mother" Waldo continu-
ally refused relief to a woman, who
had sick child and no food in her
house. until this poor woman tainted
in her office from fatigue and
hunger. And the very Just Mr.. Hor-
ton had the audacity to come out
with statement in the press the
other day that there is no starvation
in the City Of Portland.
The Portland Relief Workers Pro-
tective Association will throw that
lie into his face. That's why they
didn't let us carry our signs in our
parade to the City Hall. They we're
afraid OF that march of hunger and
starvation,
In our preparations for May
Day we are getting considerable
support from the workers and ex-
pect to have good turnout on May
1st In celebration of the Interna-
tional Workers Holiday.
n r.
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All Organizations Urged Signs Special Effects AT Once
John Reed Club artists W,

NEW YORK long loft at go
West Third Street, revolutionary
artists of the John Reed Club and
members of the Sign Painters Union
are making May Day signs and
efigies.
Artists come to the May Day sign
headquarters after working hours to
make this May Day the most color
full and impressive in May Day his
tory. Others who are unemployed
have donated full time to this work.
Well known revolutionary crafts
men of the brush, as Bill Chopper,
Jacob Burck, Hugo Gellert, Adolph
Dehn, William Siegel. Phil Bard,
del" Walter Quirt, and many
others have contributed designs as
well as actual work in the creation
of a record-making number of i'm
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Bronx, stated that the attitude OF
the A. F. of L. is like that of re-
spectacle citizens, but they want a
clean union and the taxi drivers
must take advice from responsible
trade union leaders" In the next
breath he stated that Larry Fay
was not q bad fellow" Larry Fay
recently murdered, was notorious
racketeer, gangster and character
who for number of years squeezed
thousands of dollars from hackmen
food workers, laundry workers and
others in order to build up speak
easies. At one time as much as
$4,000 in limitations was pocketed
by this scoundrel, about whose
memory August Claessens is so ten
der.
DANKEN and Levy, who in the taxi
1 strike failed to find great pick
ings in the form of legal fees, wished
to again force their legal leadership
on the hackmen. While the A. F
of L. did not dare to openly unite
with the company unions and Rob-
bins of the Parmelee, they are find
ing roundabout ways to force the
same kind of union on the ner
without consulting the membership
Socialist Leadership" During the
Strikes
At the time of the first strike
Panken and Levy were invited by
LaGuardia, and later were joined by
Norman Thomas in negotiations
The cab drivers never made any de-
cision to invite these experts in SELL
ing out strikes in the name of so
cialism"
The policy of the Socialist leaders
was the same as that pursued in
the fur industry, where despite the
fact that 95 per cent of the fur
rierS selected the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union as Their
organization, Panken proposed that
5 per cent together with the M
ployers, would decide who would
lead them. In the hearings ir1
Washington, Senator Wagner was
forced to tell Judge Panken that his
policy is much like Fascism. From
the very beginning Judge Panker
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aim of the company is to lay ths
basis for a greater claimed support
of the company union lall who at
tend are claimed as supporters and
to give the Employer Representa-
tives the opportunity to soft soap"
the workers.
2. A District Council including
company union representatives Of
all U. s. Steel subsidiaries in the
Calumet Region has been formed.
The purpose Of this quite evidently
is TO set up another body through
which to drag out the increasingly
numerous complaints of the work
ers end to better organize the COM
pany union in order to put over
the company policies in a concerted
manner.
B.. A new company union under
the name Of the q. S. Steel En-
ployee Federation and slightly diff
ferent form is being established in
order to catch the steel workers who
are seeking militant working class
unionism.
At meetings of the departments
called by the company union. the
workers on several occasions have
taken the floor and raised their
demands, as happened in the case
Of the meeting of the Central Mill
men on March 30.
Company Is Too Poor"
These workers raised the demand
for double time for Sunday work,
clean drinking water, adequate wash
room and toilet supplies, etc, When
the company representative, Mac
Nabb, who was present, attempted
to plead that the company is too
poor" to grant these demands and
admitted that "the company union
can't change company rules or raise
wages" the workers answered that
they are not concerned about the
profits of the company and that if
the company union can't do these
things, What good is it?" At other
meetings, similar action by the
workers was noted.
1t is because Of these events that
U. S. Steel is pushing forward the
new form of company union. 1t
is an attempt to keep the workers
from going over into the S. M. w.
I. u, which is gaining greater in
fluence each day. This new COM
pany union is disguised with talk
of it being an independent" union.
So far no meeting has been called
to establish a branch Of this outfit.
The company union representative
Of the electrical department, Mallin-
son, called this meeting and sue
ceeded in being elected as chairman
of the Executive Board. He is sup
posedly responsible for drafting the
plan for the new U. S. Steel En-
ploye Federation but it is quite clear
that this plan has been drafted by
the Steel Institute and Mallinson
selected as the man to introduce it
( among the workers.
While all these nlaneuvers of the
steel trust are taking place, the
misleaders Of the An1alganated AS
ISOLATION "a. F. Of L. are silent.
They have tried in vain to keep the
workers from acting, and hoping
that the ~ r. A. and Labor Boards
would do something to improve their
4 condition, The workers are start
ing to realize that only through
their own united actions as proposed
/ by the S. M. w, l. U. can condi-
lions be changed. The S. M w. I.
U. calls upon the workers of the
steel mills to join in united action
in the departments and mills, re-
t gardless of their union sffiliation,
around a militant program as pro-
posed by the S. M. w. I. q.
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Plan TO Celebrate
Victory in Stopping
Eviction of Briggs

NEW YORK.-Tenants of 425 e.
Sixth st. are arranging a victory
celebration for April % at the
Workers Center, IS E. 18th St., to
popularize their tremendous victory
in forcing the powerful Enigrant
Industrial Savings Bank to back
down on its attempt to evict Cyril
Briggs and enforce racial segrega-
ton in its Sixth st. tenement.
Richard B. Moore, general secre-
tary of the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights, will speak on THE
Necessity of Working Glass Unity
Against Growing Fascism." Admis-
sion is set at 20 cents to insure a
mass attendance.
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be wasted. Both sides Of the sign
will carry message to the workers
bordering the line of march.
An International Labor Defense
branch has ordered sticks con-
structed in such way that shirts
can be placed over them. This will
symbolic the march of the shirts,
black, brown, silver, khaki, ETC., and
their downing.
The artists are charging only the
cost of the materials in the build
ing Of these ef1gies. All organiza-
tons participating in the May Day
parade should get in touch with
the United Front May Day Com
mittee, 100 Broadway, Room 500,
and place orders for posters, eff1gies
and banners. Organizations desiring
special parade effects can obtain
the mat cost. too.
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pressive posters and efhgies in the
Third Street loft.
Many of the efdgies, parade masks
and floats are well on the way to
completion. Some of the innovations
are flock of huge blue buzzard
efigies. Others deal with yellow
dogs, the company union, rats, for
scabs and stool pigeons, and the
hungry wolf which is at all our
doors.
The capitalist press efiigy, made
by Comrade Anderson viii I'M
doubtedly be long remembered and
talked about. A huge dragon, rep
resenting the reptile of fascism
and war, is near to completion.
A new form of sign, carried in
flag shape, and with painting on
both sides, will be available for this
parade. In this way, no board will
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Genus al nOuT, HOdi-udy,
which is same pay for 8 hours
as formerly for 9.
There are about $50 Negro
stevedores working on both sides Of
the river. About rs white workers
work with them as crane men, car
knockers, jitney drivers, checkers,
etc. The white workers have all the
best and most skilled jobs.
Negro Workers Strike
When the Negro workers under
the leadership of the Marine Union
walked off the job, they talked with
the white workers who joined them
in their strike. They drew up the
demand for a proportional increase
for the white workers.
The white workers were organized
into the Association of Federal En-
ployees (an A. F. of L. affiliate)
Over the heads of their leadership
and without the permission Of their
national Office, the white workers
Joined the strike shoulder to
shoulder with their Negro fellow
workers.
Stool-pigeons were sent in among
the white workers, provocateurs and
ward heelers among the Negroes.
The white workers were called into
the Office of the boss. Agents of the
boss amongst them urged them not
to take Negro workers with them
for a joint committee. Likewise
Negro nationalist in the ranks of
the Negroes told the Negroes that
they should not urge joint COM
mittee.
The white workers were gotten
k-white chauvinism was
pumped into their heads by the boss
and their leaders. the red scare was
raised. AS a result they were bought
out by the boss and left the Negro
workers to strike by themselves.
At this, the Negro ward heelers
used all their petty bourgeois ma
tionalist tricks in order to split the
workers still more. They persuaded
the workers that the strike was lost
now that the white workers had left
This was not so. The Negro work
ers are the main key to the Levee
and could have won without the
white workers as they did last sum-
ncr
But the Negro workers were SC
disheartened by the betrayal of the
white workers nisled by their lead
srs, that they gave up the fight and
vent back to work.
N.R.A. Does Its Part
Previously they had gone to the
MIRA. regional board which said ii
washed its hands Of the strike I'M
less the men went back to work and
waited for arbitration. This the men
had refused to do. On this board is
Bill Fitzmaurice of the Interna-
tional Association of Machinists and
Mr.. Brandt, secretary G entra
Trades (both A. F. of L..
The Negro workers have gone
back organized-resolved to stick by
their union. They have not given up
the idea of strike for higher wages
Inside their ranks is being organized
unit of the Communist Party
which will fight against their
enemies and lead the rest of the
union in the battle both against
white chauvinism and for the unity
of the white and Negro workers and
against the Negro petty bourgeois
nationalist who are out to break
that unity also.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Bronx JObIeSS and
Fired C.W.A. Storm
Home Relief BurO
East Side Unemployed
to March to Welfare
Dept. April 10Th

| NEW YORK.-One hundred and
fifty fired c. w. A, workers, led
by the Bronx local of the Relief
Workers League, marched on the
Home Relief Bureau at 149th st. and
Third Ave, yesterday, brushed aside
the police guard, and forced the re-
lief supervisors to meet with the
workers elected committee and
promise to grant relief to all cases
| presented.
The Home Relief Bureau workers
actively supported the workers dele
cation, showing real solidarity be-
tween the Home Relief Bureau
workers and the unemployed.
Trial of Jailed Workers April rs
The three former C. w. A. work
ers who were jailed by the police
after the demonstration at the
Bronx C. w. A. headquarters at
18th st. and Webster Ave, Sat-
urday, will be tried at West Farms
Court, 181st st. and Boston Road,
Thursday, April Is, at $50 am.
Workers are urged to pack the court
and demand the unconditional re-
lease of these workers.
I
Flop House Workers to March
Jobless workers living at the Gold
Dust Lodge will assemble at Colears
and Water SITS, Thursday, April 10,
at pm, and march to Rutgers
Square, where they will be joined
by other unemployed groups, and
will march on the Home Relief Bu-
reau at Spring and Elizabeth Sts..
then to the Department of Welfare
at SO Lafayette st.
The East Side Local of the Relief
Workers League, the Downtown
Unemployment Council, the Gold
Dust Lodge Action Committee, the
Workers Committee on Unemploy-
ment Locals and 3, and various
neighborhood unemployed groups
are supporting the demonstration.
The workers will demand rank
and file control of the single mems
Gold Dust Lodge flop house now
under control of the Salvation
Army, the removal of Major Laurie
from the Gold Dust Lodge. supple
mentary relief to all work relief
employees, and free clothing to all
clients now on home relief.
Delegations Besiege Hodson
Joint delegations of workers from
Bear Mountain, Dykers Beach, Nc
Kinley Park, Bergen Beach, Bush
wick Park and other work projects
continued to besiege the office of
Commissioner of Welfare VIM. Hold
son, at so Lafayette St. yesterday.
On many of the projects the
workers have not received any pay
since the end of the c. w. A. and
the transferance to city work re-
lief"
On the Bushwick Park project,
superintendent Meller fired two
Jewish workers, telling them that
We don't want any Jews here"
The workers are demanding Jobs
or cash relief equal to C. w. A..
wages for all unemployed, and no
discrimination against Negro and
foreign-bo born workers.
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The dictatorship of the proIe-
tariat is a fight, fierce and ruth
less, of the new class against an
enemy of preponderant strength,
against the bourgeoisie, whose
determination to resist has been
increased tenfold by its over
throw.--Lenin.
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Steel Trust Tries
To Put Democratic
Mask on Co. Union
Steel Union Leads Fight to Win Workers Right
for Own Organization

GARY Ind, April 16.-Due to the overwhelming oppo-
on of the steel workers to the company union largely
developed by the exposures by the Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union and Communist Party the u s. Steel Cor
poration is taking further steps to democratze the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
MASS MEET AT HI. r. b.
WEDNESDAY

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-The work
ers of Williamsburg, led by the
Unemployment Council and the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League,
will hold an open-air mass meet
ing on April 10 at 10 am. before
the Home Relief Bureau at S.
Fourth st.
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Calls Meeting

VIII your name appear in the
May Day edition of the Daily?
Make sure that it will. Send
your greeting today. Address.
Daily Worker, 50 E. 18th St., New
York City.
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United Front May Day
Committee Called to
Meet Wednesday Mite

NEW YORK. 49, The United
Front May Day Committee,
elected by the conference of
nearly one thousand delegates in
Webster Hail on Saturday. April
14th, are called to a meeting
Wednesday. April 18th at Irving
Plaza. 18th st. and Irving Place.
Carl Brodsky. secretary Of the
committee. calls the members of
the committee TO come on time,
$50 p. m. sharp.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Union Men Lose
Jobs for Exposing
Picture Union Head
Sherman Calls Nj e e t
To Whitewasil
Charges

NEW YORK-Following the scath-
ing expose made by a rank and file
committee Of motion picture oper-
stors before the Senate Labor Com
mittee last Saturday, charging that
Harry Sherman. president of the
New York City Motion Picture
Operators Union. Local sos had ex-
pended more than 100000 Of the
union funds in a year and had in
Inundated members. the entire mem
bership Of the committee was fired
from their jobs at the behest of Mr..
Sherman, union members say.
The men who were on the COM
mittee which went to washington
and were fired were Nathaniel Dor
sgoff. leader of the delegation. Leo
Brodsky. Samuel Sole, Morris Barth
and Lewis Phillips.
Besides charging that Sherman
had expended 100000 Of the union
funds. the delegation charges that
he spent 100000 out of the union
treasury without accounting for it.
This Mr.. Sherman called the re
Mobilization fund. Seventy thousand
dollars Of this sum, the delegation
asserts, went to a lawyer named
David P. Siegal,
Excessive Assessments
The rank and file committee fur
Their charged Mr.. Sherman robs the
union members with an excessive
dues and assessment system.
Each member must pay $40 a year
dues to Mr.. ShermRn's treasury,
plus 70 per cent Of the members
earnings. 25 cents week sick
benefit and Sill every time a mem
Der dies.
The committee says that Alex
Polin, who was fighting Sam Kap-
Ian, former head of the union who
was convicted of graft, has spent
large sums to bring in the Lepky-
Gurrah gsngsters into the union to
terrorize the members. Polin, who
argued against the $4,000 year
salary which Kaplsn received, is
the one who made the motion that
Sherman get the same salary, the
committee said.
Calls Meeting
In an attempt to protect his face,
Sherman called a meeting Monday
night at Central Opera House, 205
E. 6Tth St, where he SAYS he will
explain the charges brought against
him.
The rank and file is expected to
demand a showdown at this meet
ing. A large group of operators have
pledged to support the committee
which brought the charges.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
A. F. OIL. Leaders
Betray Strike on
St. Louis Levee
Divide White Workers from Negro Dockers
by Trotting Out the ''Red Scare
and Jim-Crow Tactics
By Bill SENTNER

ST. LOUIS-The workers the st. Louis and East
st. Louis Federal Barge line returned to work after three
day strike They struck for so cents hour 8hour day
and the return the per cent back pay that due them
well all Federal employees The returned to 40
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ready adopted the Workers Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance Bill
as their bill, and all workers speak
favorably of it.
Evening star., 1934-04-23
u. S. Officer Slain
In Dillinger Hunt
Was NatiUe of D. G..

w. Carter Baum, 29-year-old special
agent of the United States Division
of Investigation, killed near Rhine
lander, Wis, by members of Dillinger's
gang early today, was native OF the
District of Columbia and a graduate
of Tech High School and George
Washington University here.
Jay Newman, "a, another special
agent of the division, wounded in the
gun battle. also is well known in
Washington, having been attached
formerly to the local Office Of the
division.
Baum. who was ambushed when he,
Newman and Constable Carl c. Chris
tensen challenged a man they met
on the road while en- route to tele-
phone for reinforcements, was SON.
in-law of Rev. John A. Grose of Lay
louisville, Md, whose daughter Mary
the agent married several years ago.
Praised by Hoover.
Mrs. Baum, with her two young
children, is in Chicago, where the
Baums have been living recently.
Baum. attached to the Chicago field
Office of the division of investigation,
was a member Of a squad of Federal
officers who were rushed to the lonely
Wisconsin north woods region last
night on a tip that Dillinger was
there.
j. Edgar Hoover, director of the
Division of Investigation, paid high
tribute to Baum and his comrades to-
day. Hoover again called attention
to the lack of a Federal law against
numbering a Government officer. A
bill to correct this deficiency now is
pending in Congress.
Baum was educated in the District
public schools, and upon graduation
from Mckinley High School In 1922
attended George Washington Univer-
sity Law School. After receiving his
law degree he became member OF
the District of Columbia and Virginia
bars and entered upon the practice
of law in Washington. Baum entered
the service of the Division of Investi-
CATION as a special agent on June 80,
1890. He had served in that capacity
in the New York City and Chicago
districts of the division.
Agent Baum's father resides in Cali
fornia. His mother is dead.
Newman, a legal resident Of Salt
Lake City, Utah. where he was born,
entered the division of investigation as
special employe of the local Office in
1925. He was appointed special
agent the following year and in addi-
ton to serving in the Washington
area has been stationed in California,
Oregon, Washington State, Ohio, Min
nesota and Illinois. His wife resides
in Chicago. to which field office of the
lewiston her husband is attached.