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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

stein Committee was ostensibly set
up to expose fascist activities.
Those workers who still have illu-
sions in bourgeois democracy and
constltutionalism should have their
eyes opened by all this trickery of
using the pretext of Investigating
fascism" as a cover for melting at
tacks upon the Communist Party
and all militant workers organiza-
TONS
If the chambers of commerce and
the various Dicksteins are so busy
today launching their venomous
spears against the Communist
Party, it is because they feel the
crescendo of the revolt going on
among the American masses, who
more and more understand that a
radical change has to be made, not
in the direction of destroying the
Communist Party, which exposes
the rottenneSs of this system, which
is leading the masses toward bet
ter society, that will give final
happiness to the people. but against
the causes of the rottenness that
are exposed daily, and against ele-
inents that are producing them.
Yes, the day is not far off when
Few Of the prototypes Of a past So
ciety, like Dickstein. and others,
would be preserved as objects for
historical study for the new gen.
Grafton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Investigations Reveal Parassm of American Capitalism

THE front pages of the New York
4 bourgeois press of last Thursday
carried revelations of two inquiry
commissions that put the Stavisky
scandal in the shade. The NUM-
tions inquiry in Washington dis
closed that while the American boys
were bleeding on the battlefields of
France, the munition makers made
p..ofits of 800 per cent during the
World War, and millionaires grew
like mushrooms. And here is the
tragic comedy! These same vul-
lures who profited from the war,
who made 300 per cent in profits,
sucked from the blood of those who
were fighting for democracy" are
the backstage rulers of the country.
How can we explain such a con-
tradiction that these rulers are to-
day being investigated by an In
quiry Commission? While, through
such commission, the government
wants to bluff the American masses,
showing the face of liberalism it
is precisely under the mask of this
comedy that a War Board is being
set up for the purpose of speeding
war preparations, from which du
Pont and Co. will again get new
billions and the American boys, new
bullets.
In the city of New York, an in
uuiry into the administration of the
Welfare Department shows that
thousands of pounds of veal, cab
bage and potatoes were left to rot
on the piers; and from the lips of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

Mr.. Hodson and the Mayor of New
FORK we have the most candid ex-
PLANTATION of such a crime. Mr.. Hold
son, in so many words, says that
it is not his business to over-step
the allotment OF relief given to the
unemployed, which corresponds to
the barest minimum.
Why should the Welfare Depart
ment be overburdened with some
new task? The problem is to keep
the unemployed just alive. The
distribution OF more potatoes, more
cabbage and meat would have slim
ulated the appetites of the masses
on relief. And the Mayor of New
York, the liberal Mr.. LaGuardia,
explains that the problem was not
to give more relief than was previ-
ously decided upon, but through the
purchase of potatoes and cabbage,
the T. E. r. A. was aiming to help
the producers. Here we are. The
inquiry shows that these people
with big fat salaries, who live in
luxury are well fed, we'll dressed,
moving from banquet to banquet,
with endless numbers of courses,
consider the unemployed in cate
CORY of lower animals, that must
live on minimum of cabbage and
potatoes. The diet is probably the
outcome OF consultations with ex-
pert veterinarians concerning the
diet of dogs, cats or the diet for
the various animals kept in the
New York Zoo.
While such rottenness is revealed,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Glass Strike
Pact Is Secret
After Month
New Union Head Silent
on Terms Though He
Ended Walkout

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 15.-Al-
though President Glenn McCabe, of
the Federation of Flat Glass Work
ers "a. F. of L., announced that
an agreeable settlement with the
major window glass companies had
been reached at the time the glass
workers strike was called off a
month ago, inquiry fails to bring
to light anything resembling an
agreement and the statements of
glass workers brand McCabe's an
nouncement a brazen lie.
McCabe, showed into the presi-
dency of the Federation by Frank
Morrison, secretary of the A. F. Of
L., at the time the union was or
ganized, called off the strike with
out any vote of the membership of
5000, and is now doing the work of
the glass employers in telling the
union not to strike or ask for higher
wages.
At a meeting of the Arnold local
last week McCabe appeared and in
formed the 400 employed at the
American Window Glass Co. that
the company cannot afford" to
pay more wages unless the price of
window glass is raised generally.
Negotiations with the union, under
McCabe's guidance, were broken off
on that basis.
A meeting of glass manufacturers
is scheduled in Pittsburgh next
week, and committee from the
union will attend to demand the
increase, but their top leaders have
told the committee not to ask this
unless the conference decides to
raise glass prices.
With the collaboration of the
American Federation of Labor the
glass workers are still split on a
craft basis. From the Cutters
League, including the highest paid
of the flat glass workers, who form
sort of aristocracy McCabe was
designated as president of the Fed
Grafton, which was to be the new
industrial union. But the cutters
still meet and operate separately,
and there is no guarantee that they
would come out if the Federation
struck.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Starvation Tire atens
900 Families As Relief
Gives Out in Little Rock

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Dec. 1s.-
Nine hundred families here, in
which no one is able to work be-
cause of sickness or old age, face
starvation after Dec. "a, unless the
city and county authorities stop
evading the issue as they did at a
meeting last week, and vote the
funds necessary to keep them on re-
lief.
These families have been living on
the munificent sum of s308 per
month, but now that the funds,
raised by voluntary tax on utility
bills, has been depleted, none of the
local officials will take the respon-
sibility for their care. Frank Gregg,
a grocer, who supplies the food or
ders, said at the hearing that the
plans to give these families so cents
a week until the first of the year
was a crime. The average purchase
on a 50-cent order is a 30-cent sack
CT corn meal and 20 cents for salt
meat, he explained.
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and by the opponents of the ruling
class itself, the Conference on Crime
is discussing how best to destroy
the Dillingers, the Baby Face Mel
sons and Co., who are products of
the present rotten society. What
are the Dillingers and Nelson's in
comparison with the people who
made 300 per cent profits, and who,
in few months became million
aires, while tens and tens of thou
sands of the flower of American
youth were slaughtered in the
trenches of France? The sale of
deadly weapons to the enemy"
shows that gold and profits have
no fatherland!
What are the Dillingers and Nell
sons in comparison with the gen.
tlemen who cannot be bothered if
thousands of pounds of cabbage,
meat and potatoes rot while work
ers are starvingt And yet, when
the workers of New York protest
against the taxes, protest because
during the day, in buying num-
Der of articles of necessity which
are more than II cents, and are
thereby forced to pay out nickels
they can i'll afford out OF their
meagre budget, Mayor LaGuardia
calls them bread snatchers." And
this on the same day that the capt.
talist press printed the latest sta
tistics in the papers on the growth
OF millionaires in this country. And
while these rotten things are going
on, the chambers of commerce come
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Relief Slash
Turks Behind
Custer Charge
(DaiIy Worker ohlO Bureaul

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec 18.-
Ten cents out of every relief dollar
in Ohio goes to pay the salaries of
the officials and the cost of admin
istration, admitted Governor-elect
Martin L. Davey, to justify the in
tended custer of Adjt Gen. Frank
D. Henderson, present Ohio Relief
Administrator, whom he wants to
replace with one of his own hench-
men.
Davey charged that relief work
ers, who in most of the cases owe
their appointments to political pull
and are totally unfamiliar with the
work they are supposed to perform.
are receiving executive salaries and
that the administration expenses
are also totally out of proportion to
the money actually spent on relief
1t was brought out that the cost
of administering the relief in Ohio
was s828,2l2 for the month of Octo-
Der, or 98 per cent Of the total
money expended. Charges for gas
oline, office, electricity, travelling
expenses, office supplies and print
ing, alone amounted to $175,3O9 for
the month.
Behind these official accusations
of excessive relief administration
costs lies the threat of more relief
cuts for the unemployed. The coat
ing of official pallaver about "re-
lief costs" the unemployed feel, will
be laid bare for a slash similar to
the threatened dropping of "unem-
ployables" from the relief rolls.
The Cleveland Unemployment
Councils and the Small Home and
Land Owners Federation have called
for a city-wide relief march on Sat-
urday, Dec. % at 1 pm. from the
Public Square to the City Hall to
demand increased relief and an
emergency winter relief allowance
of $40 in cash for each unemployed
family and SIS for single persons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

1t shows, on the contrary, of be-
ing the best champion of the Amer
lean tradition of liberty, which
teaches that when it becomes
necessary the American people have
the right to change their govern
nlent, and even resort to the use of
arms. Certainly, Soviet America,
in which the workers, the large ma
iority, will rule, would not use silk
gloves on these parasites who allow
potatoes, meat and cabbage to rot
while workers are starving; and
would not handle with silk gloves
those people that sucked profits
from the blood of those who were
fighting on the battlefields. If by
liberty, the chambers of commerce
and the Dicksteins mean the lib
erty of the bankers, the Industrial
lists, to exploit the masses to the
bone-then, yes, we are for the de-
struction of such liberties. We are
for the achievement of real liberty
Of the toiling masses, their liberia
ton from system based on ex-
ploitation.
In the United States, there is
everything to give happiness to the
working masses. 1t is only Soviet
regime that would open the ware
houses, that would cut down the
hours of work, that would give
everyone the security Of a job,
that would put an end to rack
eteering.
1t is significant that the Dick
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

that the country is rotten" the
prosecution asked, would that
prejudice you against these peo-
ple?"
Gallagher objected, and put the
question to the effect that the de-
PENDANTS believe that the country
is good and can be converted into
paradise for the masses, but that
this is opposed by a small group of
capitalists; therefore to accomplish
a change to a workers and farmers
government, the toiling masses
must throw the capitalists off their
backs.
In answer to a challenge by the
district attorney on the Communist
position on the Negro question,
Gallagher explained that the Com
munists fight for full equality for
the Negro people, including the
right of the Negroes in the BLACK
Belt" of the South to govern the
territories in which they constitute
a majority of the population. Caro-
line Decker, one of the defendants,
asked Juror King, eff you should
learn that the organization in the
indictment fights for the freedom
of the Scottsboro boys would that
prejudice you against me?" The
prosecution Immediately objected,
and was sustained by Judge Lem
mon.
Judge Lennon also ignored a
challenge by Albert Hougardy, an
other defendant, on the exclusion
of Negro and Mexican workers from
the two regular and four special
jury panels called SO far.
The fourth special panel was ex-
hausted today before the jury was
completed, and another special
panel will be called.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
YOUTH TO MEET

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Dec. ia re-
rional youth congress will be held
here on Dec. % at the Y.WC.A., SO
East Monroe Street. The arrange
ments committee includes represent
tatives Of the Industrial Girls
League Of the Y. w. c. A, the City
Wide Council of the Business and
Professional Women of the Y. w.
c. A., the International Negro
Movement, Young Circle League,
Young Peoples Socialist League,
Unemployment Councils, Young
Communist League, the Workers.
Committee on Unemployment, and
many other organizations.
A welcoming mass meeting to the
delegates will be held December 81
at the New England Congregational
Church, 10 w. Delaware, with a
symposium by representatives OF the
Republican, Democratic, Socialist
and Communist parties on the topic
What is the attitude of my party
towards the program Of the Amer
lean Youth Congress-"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
seamen Protest Wage Scale


NEW ORLEANS, La, Dec. ia
meeting of one hundred and fifty
seamen, called by the Waterfront
Unemployment Council, has written
Victor Olander, national secretary
of the international Sc m MS
Union, protesting against his &C
ceptance of a wage scale of $3.50 a
month for able bodied seamen.
The meeting voted unanimously,
demanding: y no reduction in the
original demands of the seamen
without approval of the seamen; %
the same wages and conditions for
the seamen of the West Coast, East
and Gulf ports, the Gulf to be in
cluded in negotiations: 81 any de-
cisions are to be submitted to a vote
of all seamen except scabs, regard
less of union afflliation; d any
agreement negotiated must guaran-
tee Centralized Shipping Bureaus in
each port, controlled by elected COM
mittses of the seamen, and the right
of the seamen to belong to unions
of their own choosing. 81 $500 a
month scale for able-bodied seamen,
with the rest of the crew getting
wages in proportion.
The seamen demand an answer to
the demands by January !, 1885.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Boss
Dodges Offer
OF Mediation
Labor Parade Planned
To Rally Support for
Newark Newsmen

NEWARK. N. j., Dec. 18.-After
stalling for more than a week,
Lucius T. Russell, publisher of the
Newark Ledger, declared last night
that there is nothing to mediate"
in answer to the offer of the Re-
gional Labor Board of New York to
mediate the strike of his editorial
workers.
This is being answered by prepa-
rations for a great mass labor
march in support of the strikers,
on Sunday at 8 pm, from Wash
ington Park. Every labor organiza-
ton in the city has been canvassed
to participate in the event which is
to be made into a demonstration for
unionism. The parade will proceed
down Broad Street to Branford
Place, up Branford to Washington,
then back to the Newark Ledger Of
flee, and will end at the strike head
quarters of the Guild, 70 Bank
Street, which is next door to the
Ledger.
The strike committee points out
that the Ledger strike has been en-
dorsed by organized labor and in
vited all unions to participate. The
strike Of the forty-four editorial
workers, which is now in its fifth
week, has evoked enthusiastic soli-
darity from every part of the coun-
try, as shown by the list of contri-
buttons sent until Dec. 10 and pub
lished in the Reporter, issued by
the strikers. A total of $4,429.36 for
the strike relief fund came in from
Guilds having a membership of
4,830. Support continues to pour in
and the strikers remain as deter
mined as ever.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

proceedings against District Attor-'
ney McAllister and Assistant Dep
uty D. A. Buchler, and called for a
mistrial on grounds of packed
jury.
Gallagher also demanded that
Judge Dial M. Lennon cite Sacra-
mento newspapers for distorted re-
ports of trial proceedings in playing
up McAllister's fantastic claims of
RED threats" to jurors, despite the
collapse of that attempted frame-up
and the revelation of close rela-
lions between Juror Mrs. Rose and
McAllister and Buchler, who were
frequent recipients of gifts of
ducks from Mrs. Rose. Local news
papers omitted these facts, and in
simulated that Communists had
tempered with the veniremen.
The defense further demanded
that the court question Jury Com
missioner LIE Grave, Deputy Sheriff
Baker and others, including a
mystery woman, on reports that
visitors had threatened Mrs. Nix, a
juror, whose connections with
Red" Hynes of the Los Angeles
police "red squad" were exposed last
week.
All motions by the defense were
denied by Judge Lennon.
The class character of the prose-
cution of the defendants was clearly
brought out during the past few
days in the questions of both the
defense and the prosecution to
prospective jurors. In questioning
one of the prospective jurors, the
prosecution gave the following sig
nificant distortion of the Commu-
mist analysis of capitalist corrup-
ton and greed and the robbery OF
the toiling masses:
Because the defendants believe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
5OOHeld, Homes Looted
In Anti-Red Campaign
In Bulls arian Cities

SOFIA, Bulgaria. Dec. 18.-Bul-
garian fascism continued its at
tempt to crush the Communist
Party here by mass seizures total
ling over 500 persons. The imme-
date provocation for the arrests
was the lying report spread by the
government that an attempt was
being made "to set up a Commu-
nistic state"
Homes of suspected workers at
Kaskovo were raided and wholesale
beatings and looting took place on
the excuse of searching for ammu-
milton. The Communist leader,
Stoeff, was arrested. Recently six
Communists, five of them soldiers,
were hung and their bodies mutt
lated for having led mass actions in
the struggle against the terrorism
of the Bulgarian fascists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Socialist Participation
I'm Cleveland Meeting
Announced i'm Error

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 18.-The
gymnastic presentation at the cele-
bration of the 18th anniversary of
the Russian Revolution here was
offered not by the D.T.J., a So
cialist youth organization, as an
nounced by the arrangements COM
mittee, but by the Corlett Progress
sive Club. The error occurred be-
cause some individuals who took
part in the performance are mem
bers of both clubs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
.JObless
Is Seen
AS Anti-Labor
Gives Factory Owners
Chance To Run Away
From Unions

COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 18.-Aboli-
ton of direct cash relief in favor of
the so-called work relief" plan is
the basis for the reorganization Of
unemployment relief on a nation
wide scale proposed by Federal
Emergency Relief Administrator
Harry L. Hopkins, and now being
concretely worked out by President
Roosevelt and his advisers.
The plan which calls for the
placement of all unemployed on
subsistence farms and in "produc-
tion-for-use" factories, unknown to
the general public, has been in OPP
Grafton for some time. The Ohio
Production Units, a forced labor
system for the unemployed of that
state, has been in operation as one
of Hopkins experiments for his new
plan. If this plan is adopted, only
those who will work in the "produc-
tion-for- use" factories or on the
subsistence farms will be eligible for
government relief.
Paid in Scrip
Ohio Production Units, work re-
lief project, operates factories with
unemployed labor, paying it's work
ers wages corresponding to their
'budgetary needs" Con home relief
averaging $13 a month for, a
family of four in Ohio. While work.
ers are permitted to work overtime
they are paid for this time in book
keeping credits, scrip, or are allowed
to apply their overtime on purchases
of products produced in other gov
eminent production or-uSe" fac
tories.
The Ohio Plan, as the system is
currently known, takes over idle
factories, abates the taxes of the
owners and pays the owners rent
on a contractual basis (that nets
him a greater profit than he would
be likely to get if he were running
the factory on commercial basis
and paying his workers a living
wage) which permits the owner to
take back his factory in good run
ming order as soon as he thinks he
can produce profitably for the COM
mercial market.
Constitutes Strikebreaking
Such a system constitutes direct
strikebreaking agency ecause
whenever a manufacturer finds his
plant SO we'll organized that he is
forced to pay decent wages, he can
simply turn over the plant to Ohio
Production Units.
theoretically the un m p Dyed
workers in these 'production-fo
use" factories are allowed to organ
lie. But this is not an actuality fol
organized workers would Immediate
ly demand living wage, which is
incompatible, in the eyes of the gov
eminent, with this scheme, a scheme
that calls for the utilization of the
, unemployed at subsistence wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Unemployed Leader
Arrested in Kenosha

KENOSHA, Wis, Dec. 18-Mike
Kunza, militant leader of the Ken
osha Relief Workers Association,
was railroeded to 80 days in the
County Jail by Municipal Judge
Calvin Stewart, ut 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, 1934-12-19

Concessions are, average inter
coastal wages: for sailors, $50 per
month; firemen, $50; proportionate
increases in all other departments.
Warning against Olander's be-
trayal of the concessions was
sounded by Walter Stack, Marine
Workers Industrial Union organ
izer, who stated Olander already
has cut the original demands of
last summers strike to $3.50 for
able-bodied seamen.
Ship committees must be set up
Immediately to maintain these
gains, Stack said, and prepare to
force action on the original de-
mands through united action by
Jan. 1.
Crews on Luckenbach ships not
yet in port, and those who signed
on in New York should demand re-
signing here at $50 pending action
on original demands, Stack said.
The strike was carried to the
floor of the Central Labor Council
last week, when a delegate de-
manded the I. S. U. officials be
censored for their conduct. An
swering the Boosting of repreSen-
tative of the M. F. o. W., this dele
gate stated: IF the officials had
been sincere they would have been
helping to win the strike, not try
ing to break it,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Rail Workers Receive
p ay Cut Restoration

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 10
One million railroad workers are to
receive a five per cent increase in
wages beginning Jan. l. This is
partial return of the 10 per cent
wage cut imposed upon the workers
in 1882, which according to the
agreement the carriers made with
the officials of the union last April
is to be returned in parts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

attempting to rape a white girl, al
though the girl in question is re-
ported to have denied the charge.
An attempt was made to lynch
Carter before he was taken to the
Jail, and a letter struggled out of
jail reports that the jailers have
threatened to turn him over to the
landowners lynch gangs which are
engaged in a systematic campaign
of terror against all known mem
bers of the Share Choppers Union.