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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-13
Pittsburgh JObless Force
CITY Council to Appropriate

PITTSBURGH, Pa. = Mobilizing
400 workers overnight, the Unem-
pioyment Councils here packed the
City Council chambers and forced
the board to override the veto of
Mayor McNair on the 100000 ap-
preparation for unemployment re-
lief.
The money had previously been
voted by the city council after the
Unemployment Councils had held
many open hearings and sent dele
cations demanding the appropria-
ton.
Declaring that the emergency
was over" McNair vetoed the APP
preparation. Protests, committees
resolutions flooded the Mayor. Ten
thousand leaflets were distributed by
the Unemployment Councils.
After the victory in forcing
through the appropriation, the
workers streamed out of the City
Council, marched across the street
and a committee headed by Phi
Frankfeld and Ben Carothers, Com
munist candidate for Congress
damned the Office of the Nazi Con-
sui, Loible, demanding the immedi-
ate release of Ernst Thaelmann,
leader of the German masses. As
the workers, left hundreds of work
ers packed the street and new dele
cations streamed into the Nazi con-
Sulate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-13
Mass Picketing
Still Goes On at
Burroughs Strike
Communist Party Urges
Effective United
Front Actions

DETROIT, Mich, July 11.-Mass
picketing continued this morning at
the Burroughs Adding Machine Co.
strike, with the picket lines as large
as they were during the special mo-
bilization Monday morning. Yes
terday the union organizer, Wilson,
was arrested and held for the entire
day by police, who stated that other
than Burroughs men would not be
permitted in the picket line. Three
strikers are being held for trial,
charged with beating scabs. Mon
day night, at united front meet
ing, w. w. Weinstone, of the Com
munist Party, Renner, of the Prole-
tartan Party, and Harrison, of the
Mechanics Educational Society of
America, spoke. Weinstone pointed
out the necessity for coordinating a
committee for united front efforts.
Harrison, secretary of the M. E. S.
A., stated that it was the decision
of the strike committee to return
donations from political parties on
the grounds that the M. E. S. A.
was a non-political organization.
John Anderson, from the floor,
challenged Harrison's statement,
asking him point blank whether it
was true that during the big strike
last autumn the union accepted do
nations tfrom Weideman, Demo-
cratic political leader, later exposed
as maintaining a stool-pigeon or
ganization. Harrison lodged the
issue. 1t is reported that the action
of the strike committee in refusing
money from the Communist Party
is due to the influence of Smith,
who opposes the united front. Vein
stone stated that the Communist
Party, as workers organization,
will give funds nevertheless. Efforts
to work up successful joint activ-
tiles through coordinating commit
tees have received no reply from
the leadership of the M. e. S. A.
The Auto Workers Union today sent
a letter to the Burroughs Strike
OOuliiii1OOS, PAOPOSAAlS biAdD NAi q W
ordinating committee be estab-
lished; (2) big protest meeting of
all organizations be called against
police violence on the picket line;
90 that the M. E. S. A. make spe-
cial efforts, calling all locals to-
gether to strengthen the picket line
and also that they call their men,
bership of production workers that
are not on strike together, with the
aim of spreading the strike to pro-
duction workers; ca prepare jointly
for special mobilization again on
Monday mornings picket line. The
Communist Party is also addressing
a letter to the Socialist Party to
arrange joint meetings with other
organizations against police vio-
lence, for the right to organize and
strike, and for increased wages,
which are the issues involved in the
10 pesus peoI soNod 'sHoop 81.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-13
The War Set-Up in Washington

A GREAT deal is being written in
n the liberal, conservative and re-
dictionary press about the similarity
btween today and the pre-world
war era. Writers and speakers point
to the mounting ornaments, the
disarmament" chatter, war horrors,
trade rivalries, the same nonsen-
steal drivel about aggressive" and
defensive" weapons, about the
pressing necessity for investigating
munitions and armament manu-
facturers, and so on and so forth.
In other words, the superficial
likeneSses between 1884 and 1914.
These people, Of course, avoid
mentioning that war is inseparable
from capitalism, that imperialist
war is capitalism's most intense ex-
ploitation Of the worker and farmer
and that only through the revolu-
tionary overthrow of capitalism and
the establishment of a Soviet Amer
lea can workers avoid being Sacri-
feed to the Moloeh of imperiahst
war.
There are sevefal important diff
ferences between 1914 and 1884,
however. 1t is exceedingly impor-
tant that workers realize this fact
so that they will be able to counter
the maneuvres of the war makers
and thereby increase the effective
ness of the anti-war work in the
field, in the home. on the ship, and
in the factory. We are witnessing
an open attempt to sell the I'M
wary worker the lie that he has
an interest to be protected by
fighting for the bankers and in
dustrialists in the looming impe-
rialist war. This is an approach
which is becoming more and more
the dominant theme while the
paciflst notes OF Disarmament
Conferences, presidential oratory
about peace" pacts "outlawing"
war, ETC., ETC., grow weaker. In the
world war, the Allies sugar-coated
their imperialist designs with the
slogan Fight against Prussian
militarism," while the Prussian-led
forces modified their workers for
the war with the slogan Fight
against Czarisn." United States
Imperialism went the whole dema-
gogic hog with the slogans make
the world safe for democracy" and
the war to end all wars" But
today Imperialism plans to fool the
masses in other ways.
Johnson's Big Navy Talk
Senator Hiram johnson of Cali
fornia, Republican booster and
favorite of the Roosevelt Admins
tration, voiced this open imperial
istic approach in his March 6, 1884,
speech demanding the passage of
the Vinson Bill. johnson thun-
dered in his rolling pulpit tones:
81 want a navy, 1 want a real
navy, want a navy that either
upon the Atlantic or Pacific will
be able to do all that may be
done In behalf of the commerce
of this Nation, in its protection,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-13
IL Arrested After Police
Attack PhiIa. Oil Strikers

PHILADELPHIA, July 12.-
Twelve men were arrested today
following police attack upon the
picketers at the strike of 1000
oil workers at the Gulf Refinery
plant.
Foremen and straw bosses are
attempting to intimidate tn e
strikers, trying to get them to
return to work. The capitalist
newspapers of Philadelphia are
carrying large advertisements,
calling scabs to apply for strike
breaking jobs through the mail,
thus using the U. S. Post Office
Department as scab recruiting
agencies.
The militancy Of the strike,
led by the Independent Oil Work
ers Union, continues unbroken.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-13

uganda shouts for a larger army
and navy and supplementary "citi-
zen" forces which, while perform
ing strike-bre functions, will
be prepared not only for what is
described as invasion" in high
sounding declarations Of war but
also for what Assistant Secretary
Of War Harry H. Woodring pub
lcly calls economic chaos. or So
cial revolution" and what Ma jor
General Douglas Macarthur, Chief
Of Staff of the q. s. Army, terms
unrest" In other words, in ad-
dition to propagandizing the work.
ers and farmers for non-question-
ing service in imperialist war, the
government of the American bank
ers, landlords, industrialists and big
farmers, are attempting to recruit
storm troopers and regular soldiers
to prepare for revolutionary crisis
and if necessary to crush mass work
ing class revolt. They realize that
for the first time in history Amer
lean capitalism is confronted with
mass revolt, mass power.
"Our" Jingoes
Thirdly, American capitalists and
their various tools, from the lingo
publisher and industfialist, William
Randolph Hearst, on the right,
through the various fascist ten
denotes to Mustes fake radical
American Workers Party, on the
left" are feeding the fires of ma
tionalism. This is a nationalism
designed to prevent American
workers from supporting workers in
other countries, from strengthening
the world proletarian revolution
and especially from defending the
Soviet Union from encroaching i'm
peraisms. Now, more than ever
before. in view of the rising class
consciousness of the workers (shown
through broad strike struggles, po-
litical demonstrations, etc. and the
irnminence of contests for Soviet
power, proletarian internationalism
is openly recognized as the main
enemy in each capitalist country
especially in those countries where
faScism rules.
Fourthly, the most important Of
all the differences between today
and 1914, from the standpoint OF
the workers interests, is the ex-
istence of a revolutionary move
ment, the policy and program Of
which are international in a resl
sense. 1t is a revolutionary move
ment which, being feminist, COM
bines the explanation of the cause;
of imperialist war with day-to-day
anti-war work among workers
farmers, and intellectuals. Today
the workers have Communist Par
ties in each country which not only
circulate the anti-war program Of
the Third international but which
carry out concretely the day-to-day
work essential in the struggle
against war and fascism.
(TO be continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-13
One Year NRA Increased Mass
Suffering, Belying Roosevelt

alton, these figures show a dras-
tic decline in physical volume of
sales. (See Economic Notes,
July, 1934). Thus the workers
purchasing power under N. R. A.
has declined.
The situation is summed UP
by A. w. Zelomek, economist of
the Fairchild Publications, who
wrote DAILY News Record, June
s. of the N. R. AS Increased
cost to the consumer, greater in
most cases than the increased
wage. We find that while a
minority of the population, most
ly in the lower income group,
found their income enlarged
through the raising of the min
mum wage scale, the majority
continued with the same income
in the face of higher cost Of
living. We find that labor has
given back more than received in
the form of increased costs, and
this IN turn has tended to re-
strict demand, causing curtail-
ment. In fact, a large portion
of our population received prac-
tically no aid" Emphasis ours,
as elsewhere, unless otherwise in
dicated.-L.R.A.).
Terror, Company Unions, for
Workers
Both Roosevelt and johnson
harped on labor's share in the N.
r. A. Roosevelt said: collective
bargaining and the right of work
ers to choose their own representa-
tives were established" Yet work
ers who took literally the language
OF Section Ia and acted upon it
have been confronted with terror.
company unions, compulsory arbi-
tration, and host of. other anti
labor devices. General johnson.
however. asserts that I'm these DAYS
the country is burdened by labor
strife almost entirely because of
misunderstanding by employers and
workers of what the industrial act
and N. r. A. codes offer to Them. .
General Johnson, as well as the
other capitalists, know that the en-
ploying class has not misunderstood
the N. r. A., but on the contrary
has taken every advantage of it.,
for it is designed for them. This
Is recognized by c. F. Hughes, New
York Times columnist, who lists as
the N. r. AS major faults: ito
yield everything to industry and
little or nothing to labor !. (and)
to leave the consumer pretty well
out in the cold"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-13
ALL. Joins
.Jersev CITY
Strike Move
Wood Carvers Support
Industrial Union
Strikers

NEW YORK.-Uniting with the
Furniture Workers Industrial Union
in their fight for the right to strike
and picket in Jersey City, the Inter-
national Wood Carvers and Mould
ers Association. an A. F. of L. am
late, contributed 500 to the united
front fighting fund.
The contribution was given Wed<
nesday night by J. z. Sussman,
corresponding secretary Of the
union, at a meeting held in Irving
Plaza Hall, Wednesday night. He
said that the A. F. Of L. Wood Cary-
ers Union would fight side by side
with the Furniture Workers Union
against the tyranical anti-picket
edict of Mayor Hague.
The meeting was held under the
auspices Of the Furniture Workers
Industrial Union, the International
Labor Defense, Civil Liberties
Union and the National Committee
for the Defense Of Political Prison.
ers.
Among the speakers were Joe
Kiss and Max Peslow of the Union,
and Corliss Lamont and Alfred w.
Bingham, both of whom were ar
rested on the picket line in front
Of the Miller Furniture Plant in
Jersey City.
Representatives of the Furniturs
Workers Union announced that
they will not only continue to picket
the Miller Plant, but they will also
picket two more shops in the city.
The fight against the Hague edict
has spread to practically all labor
unions in jersey. The Central
Labor Union, a delegate body rep
resenting $4,000 workers, criticized
the Hague administration for pro-
hibiting picketing. The action Of
the unions on the issue, however,
depends on the rank and file.
Leaders Of the Central Labor Union
have taken steps for concrete action.
At the meeting held in Irving
Plaza Hall resolutions were passes
pledging full moral and financial
support of the unions involved in
the struggle. There we're also res
olutions supporting the fight for the
freedom of Ernst Thaelmann and
protesting against the murder OF
the two west coast maritime strik-
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-13
Hillside, NJ, Relief
Workers on Strike
For Full Cash Pay
Demand End of Present
Commissary Relief
System

HILLSIDE, N. j., July 12.-More
than 100 relief workers here, under
the leadership Of the newly organ
lied Relief Workers Association,
struck the relief projects Wednes-
day, demanding the abolition Of the
commissary form Of relief.
Originally organized to smash the
commissary system of relief, the
workers in the Association instructed
the executive committee to arrange
meeting with the relief officials
Getting no results, the committee
met with Union County relief
director Mitchell, who told the men
that cash would be given but not
in excess of the present commits
sary amounts for work relief.
AT meeting at the Hungarian
Workers Home on July 10, the ex-
ecutive reported and advised the
workers to take strike action on the
basis of the following demands
Cd cash relief in place of the
present commissary; co no reduc-
ton in relief. After a militant
lengthy discussion the workers
voted Sc for and IL against strike
action. Reporting at work the next
morning. the union members IN
duced other workers to join in the
strike.
The Communist Party of Hillside
declared its full support Of the strike
In statement issued yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-13
Schenectady Unemployed
Form Rank and File Union

SCHENECTADY, N. Y.-Six hun
dred unemployed and relief work
ers met here Monday at the Labor
Temple, and organized the Schen-
ectady County Relief and Unem-
ployed Workers Union.
The following program was
adopted: ID A minimum wage OF
SIS week for "a hours; (2) addi-
tional relief for families of four or
more; CD recognition of elected
grievance committees on all jobs;
a. unity with all unemployed not
on the relief jobs; 60 relief for
single and young workers; and
60 for the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill.
Five officers were elected, who
together with a committee of 49,
form the executive committee. This
committee is to be enlarged by the
election of workers from the
projects.
The meeting was addressed by
Vance Russell, leader of the Albany
County Relief Workers Union.
Workers packed the meeting hall,
many standing and others forced to
leave because no room was avail
able. Enthusiasm was high, and
the workers expressed determine
ton to struggle for their demands.
All present demanded and elected
rank and file control.
Another meeting will be held in
the same hall at LABOR Temple on
Monday, July Is, at 8 pm. This
will be followed by steps to enforce
the demands adopted.
DIES MONIES, Iowa. - John
Nordquist, member of the rank and
file strike committee of rs leading
the relief workers strike of 5000
here, and John Porter, organization
secretary of the Communist Party
here, were Jailed and held under
charges of criminal syndicalism. -
They are each held under $4,000
bail for hearing on July IT. Both
are being defended by the Inter
national Labor Defense. Nordquist
was seized, and Porter was jailed
when he led protest demonstra-
ton demanding the release of the
worker.
The striking relief workers are de-
manding "a hours work weekly to
all relief workers, IL hours to single
men. The strikers, on the second
strike here in the past three months,
have been out three weeks. At
the City Council meeting last week
the strike committee presented the
workers demands in petition
signed by 1,400 relief workers. The
rank and file committee was re-
Gently elected when the workers be-
came dissatisfied with the former
strike committee Of three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-13
Louisiana ReliefCut:
Pitts. JObless Win;
Relief Strikes Spread
1900 Relief Workers
Strike Trumbull County
Ohio Jobs

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. - More
than 1900 relief workers through
out Trumbull County are on strike
demanding guaranteed minimum
wages of SIS for a 30-hour week;
doubling relief for the jobless; no
discrimination; free medical aid;
and electric, gas, and water to be
paid by the relief administration.
In MaSury, 300 workers are out,
400 in Niles, 500 in Gerard, rs in
Churchill land so in Lordstown.
A united front has been made
between the Warren Unemployment
Council, the Warren Federal Re-
lief Association, Trumbull Unem-
ployed Workers Union of Niles,
Gerard Unemployed Union, Masury
Relief Workers Union, Masury Un-
employed Citizens League, Churchill
Unemployed Relief Association, and
the Lordstown improvement League
A county strike committee Of II was
elected, and a Trumbull County
Unemployed Action Committee
formed with three delegates from
each organization.
Important weaknesses are evident
Warren, Newton Falls, Hubbard and
other towns are not yet on strike
Organization is weak in these cases
and steps are being made to pull
them out. The bulk of the strikers
are not being actiyized. Each local
strike committee should Immediately
set up mass picket lines and register
every striker. Mass meetings
should be called to mobilize al
workers in support of the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-13
By Labor Research Association


NEW YORK.-The end of the
N. R. A. and N. I. R. AS first
year, June 16, 1884, was marked
by misleading statements from
President Roosevelt and his crew
of professional optimists.'
The N. R. AS first year, said
Roosevelt in a message to the
Governor of West Virginia, "re-
veals significant increases in in
dustry and business generally"
New York Times, June 10,
1934). And General Johnson, in
a copyright and signed Associated
Press dispatch, June Is, added
that the N. R. A. raised pur-
chasing power and employment,
and stimulated production on
sane lines"
Business Declines
The fact is, however, that
business activity on the N. R. AIS
first birthday was below that of
year ago. The New York
Times index of business activity
for the week ending June IS,
stood at 1913, as compared with
Ola for the corresponding period
last year.
In 46 of the So weeks during
which the N. R. A. has been
functioning, business activity has
been under what it was before
the passage of the act. Fur
thermore, the Annalist June 22)
points out that "the immediate
business outlook :. is in some
respects as bad, if not worse
than at any time since, let us
say, last March"
Unemployment More Acute
Conservative American Fedora
ton of Labor figures, which al
ways understate the situation by
several millions, assert that GEM
ployment in industry is not yet
back to the September, 1893,
level, since 10,267,000 were out
of work in May, compared to
10,108,000 last Sc p t m b err"
New York Times, June 27).
"Need is greater among the mil
lions unemployed that it was
this time last year." the state
ment concludes.
In New York City, the biggest
retail market in the country, re-
tail sales, excluding liquor sales,
for the first two weeks of June,
1884, were OIL per cent lower
than the corresponding period
year ago. Since prices have in
creased upward of % per cent
during the year under consider
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-13
Maintenance Way
Local Endorses
Insurance Bill

BY a Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK. - The Brother
hood of Maintenance Way En-
ployes Lodge 1077 of the Rail-
road Brotherhood endorsed the
Workers Unemployment IN
surance Bill and elected two
Trade Union Conference on the
Workers Bill, to be held Satur-
day, July 2S, at l pm, at r.
wing Plaza.
F. Ney spoke on the Workers
Bill and on the conference called
by the A. F. of L. Trade Union
Committee for Unemployment
Insurance and Relief. The work
ers of the lodge. which numbers
several hundred railway MAIN
tenance workers, enthusiastically
endorsed the conference and
elected delegates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-13
BIS P. C. Of Mich.
Copper Mining Area
NOw on Fed. Relief

HOU HTON, Mich.-Wide-
spread unemployment in the
copper mining region here has
resulted in Bis per cent of the
population of 5,075 in Keweenaw
County on relief, a recent survey
by the F. E. r. A. shows. In On
tonagon County, the percentage
is 81, and Houghton County SAT.
In the three counties which
comprise the copper country"
only 1000 workers are now en-
ployed in the industry which
once employed $4,000.
AS a result of the decline in
employment, the population of
the three counties, which in 1910
numbered 10000, has dropped
to about $1,000 in 1894.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-13
Hat Strike Ends With
Workers Getting Gain
In Prices On Work

NEW 1.-Two thousand
striking hatters, members Of the
United Hatters' Union, were return
ing to work yesterday following a
meeting Wednesday at which the
workers decided TO accept a IS cent
a dozen increase in prices for fin
ishers and a Decent increase for
trimmers.
The bosses fought hard against
giving any increases whatsoever,
but the mihtancy Of the strikers
forced them to kick in with more
money. The strikers had originally
demanded a 10 per cent increase.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-13

NEW YORK. = The Women's
Committee Against War and Fas-
cism will hold an anti-war parade
in support of the Women's Con-
gress in Paris, tonight at 7 pm,
starting at Varet and Graham
AYES. and winding up at the
Grand st. Extension, Brooklyn.
There will be a special division of
women with baby carriages, spe-
cial children's section, and num-
Der of working class women's or
CARNATIONS will participate.
The Communist Party Section
calling upon all workers to take
part in this parade, will raise the
slogans of Free Thaelmann,
Herndon, and the Scottsboro
Boys"
f,0,