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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30

told to Sign on the dotted line" A
great number haven't the faintest
idea what is contained in their
contract. They are forced to sign
by threats, terror, and fear of Flaw"
'You either sign or plant no cot
ton this year." is the slogan of the
landlords to their troopers or ten
ants. The local press carries scream
ing articles on what will happen to
those who won't sign. "You must pay
$50 for ginning. You can't sell
your cotton unless" and an end
less chain of such threats.
These threats have now material
lied in the Bankhead Bill, which
lays tax OF 12c per pound, or $50
per bale, for all cotton over so per
cent of the five years average. An
other is the governments refusal to
grant any loans to anyone who re-
fuses to sign. Further, the cotton
acreage reduction contract states.
ANY farmer making false represent
tations will be prosecuted by law"
And how easy it is to prove" that
poor sharecropper or tenant has
given false representation" when
this representation is left to the
discretion Of board composed of
the richest landlordsl
Rental Premiums Not for Choppers
and Tenants
But the most significant and glar-
ing provision Of these contracts is
the fact that sharecroppers and ten
ants will not receive q penny Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
StrikebreakerI
Sues Daily.
Taxi Reporter
Staff Writer Charged
With Criminal Libel''
for Backing Strikers
By CYRIL BRIGGS

NEW YORK.-An attempt to
muzzle the Daily Worker" and
break the strike of the taxi drivers
was initiated Tuesday with the
service of a summons on Harry
Raymond, Daily Worker staff
writer covering the strike, to ap-
pear in the City Magistrates Court
at 425 Sixth Avenue this morning,
to answer charge of criminal libel.
Conviction carries a long prison
sentence and may be followed by a
suit for damages.
The Daily Worker is the only
paper supporting the strike and ex-
posing the enemies Of the strikers,
and the summons, while served on
Raymond, is aimed at the Daily
Worker and this member Of its staff
who has been untiring in attending
strike meetings and investigating
and exposing the scab agencies fur
nishing the Parmelee and other
taMcab bosses with thugs against
the strikers. OF these agencies, the
most notorious is the Sherwood
Detective Agency of 1887 Broadway,
which is behind the present attack
on the Daily Worker.
The action, brought by George
Williams, one of the ieutenants of
this agency, is based on an exposure
published in the Daily Worker of
March 81, under Harry Raymond's
name.
The Daily Worker will continue to
try to expose relentlessly the enc
mics of the strikers, and the court
and police instruments of the taxi
cab bosses. The Daily Worker calls
on all taxicab strikers and the work
ers generally to pack the court
this morning in a powerful pro-
test demonstration against this
latest attack on the strikers and
the only paper supporting their
struggles for better conditions and
recognition of their union. Defend
your paper! Answer the attack by
tremendous outpouring this
morning at 10 O'Clock in the City
Magistrates Court, 425 Sixth Ave.
The legal defense will be handled
by Joseph Brodsky, head of the
legal department of the Internal
tional Labor Defense, nationally
known for his work in the Scots
boro case, and Edward Kuntz, I. L.
D. attorney.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
7HERN MASTERS AGAINST NEGRO CHOPPERS

this land, most Of which is very
sandy, to the government. The
production rate of this land was
computed at the same rate as his
best acres. This Is possible for a
man who himself is on the board.
and this is what is meant when the
landlords say, st pays to rent to
the government"
But johnson in his speech forgot
to show land consciously sol what
is being done for those some men
that will suffer" The program of
cotton acreage reduction contains
only evictions, hunger and cold
death-to those some men'-and
their families. Let's see what the
contract provides. Section I reads:
The producer shall endeavor in
good faith to bring about tn reduc-
ton of acreage contemplated in
this contract in such a manner as
to cause the least possible amount
of labor, economic and social dis
ulpdIlCSs anu W biilS cilui ulSO1dA
as possible, he shall effect the
acreage reduction as nearly ratably
as practicable among tenants on
this farm; shall, insofar as possible
my emphasis-E.R.), maintain on
this farm, rent free, for the years
1884 and 1895, respectively unless
any such tenant shall so conduct
himself as to become nuisance or
q menace to the welfare of the pro-
dueerl. - My emphasis Err
ITO BE Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Leader W ants More War
Appropriation; Men
Want Higher Pay
BY JOHN WHITE

BUFFALO, n. Y. = The
1000 workers of the Curtis
Aeroplane and Motor Co. and
the Consolidated Aircraft Co.,
now on strike, voted on March
AZ to sustain the strike vote taken
at special meeting on March %.
The strike vote was taken after the
companies refused to consider the
demands OF the workers for an in
crease in wages, to meet the rising
cost Of living, caused by the infla-
ton policy Of the Roosevelt govern
ment.
The workers are organized in the
Aeronsutical Workers Federal
Union No. 1925. The local has both
plants organized and has agree
ments with both companies for a
basic wage OF 1920, 40 hours, five
day week and to rehire all unen-
ployed union aircraft workers.
In recent pickup in production,
when the companies received orders
from the government TO build air
planes for the army and navy
(which win be used to kill workers
IN the coming irnperialist war;, the
companies broke the agreement by
hiring new workers and giving them
wages as low as 10 per cent below
the basic rate agreed upon by the
companies.
The union committee went to the
companies to protest the violation
of the agreement. The committee
also presented demands for wage
increases to meet the rising cost of
living. The demands were 500 for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
1000 Toledo Men
Strike at Amer.
Natl Company
Demand Wage Increases
Over Heads of Union
Officials
Especial to the Daily Worker

TOLEDO, Ohio, March 29.-Fully
1000 workers in the three plants of
the American National Company,
manufacturers Of children's vehicles,
walked out Wednesday morning.
The strike was called by John Cur
tin, president of the Juvenile Metal
Wheel Workers Union. a federal
union, after a closed session of the
union wage and shop committee.
The workers were not consulted.
Curtin is not employed in the in
dustry, but is deputy treasurer of
the Lucas County Local. The local
press states that the only demand
is for union recognition, but the
majority of the workers, not in
FORMED by Curtin, believe that the
demands also include a 20 per cent
increase in wages. The ten per
cent increase which was announced
several weeks ago has not been re-
ceived, but the wages are now even
lower than since piece rates have
been lowered. The wages are now
only about s12 week for produc-
ton workers.
The metal polishers have been on
strike for several weeks under the
leadership of the Metal Polishers
Union Local 2. They are demand
ing 81 an hour. The workers are
raising rank and file demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Workers Demonstrate Many Cities for Continuation of c. Wa Job
1000 in Aero Plant
Reject N.R.A., ALL.
Proposal; Call Strike

skilled workers. S36 for semi skilled
and an equitable raise for the rest
of the workers. The company re-
fused to consider the demands,
stating that they had no money to
raise wages.
At the strike meeting Thomas j.
Williams, federal labor conciliator,
harangued the workers for about 25
minutes to accept his proposal to
arbitrate the question in Washing
ton and ask for an increase of war
appropriations from the govern
ment for the airplanes. Williams
went even SO far as to threaten the
workers by saying that if the work.
ers persist on striking, the govern
ment will not consider the appeals
of the workers and will not give
any aid whatsoever.
Williams wanted the workers to
go back to work on the basis that
he get the companies to sit together
with the union committee to arbi-
trate the question in Washington.
He refused to state how long the
negotiations would continue or to
set a time limit. He also stated
that he does not guarantee the out
come Of the negotiations.
His prime worry was to get the
workers to go back to work and to
try to get an increase for the com
panies in the war appropriations
from the government for the air.
planes, so that the company would
be able to make bigger profits, and
also to tie down the workers to the
National Labor Board with its long
drawnout "arbitrations," to ham
string the workers Just as the
Wierton steel workers and the re-
cent sellout Of the auto workers
by the board.
The workers rejected Williams
proposals. The workers showed
their determination to fight for
higher wages to feed their families
and to fight for the right to strike
and picket.
The workers responded to Will
Jams proposals by organizing a
24-hour picket line around both
plants and by saying that they had
enough promises. What the work
ers want is action to increase their
wages.
The union announced strike head
quarters will be at 244 Forest Ave,
with picket headquarters for the
Consolidated at 1913 Hertel Ave, and
at Vulcan and Skillen SITS. for the
Curtis Aeroplane Co.
All workers are urged to support
the strike.
The local is controlled bv the
rank and file. It organized and is
sued charters to aircraft workers in
Seattle, Wash, and Bridgeport.
Conn, and has agreements with
aircraft workers in st. Louis. Mis-
souri,, and Baltimore, and connec-
tons with the workers in Waco.
Texas, and st. Monica, Cal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
1000 Pledge Support to Taxi Strike
(Continslsd from Page y

kCOBIAtASa from rage 4
Union. Foyt brought contribution
Of 81 from the radio operators.
Speaking for the war veterans,
Davis Of the Workers Ex-Seruoe-
mems League, said that Mayor La
Guardia had promised the veterans
all that was coming 10 them. I'VE
got nothing" said Davis, "and the
hackies can expect the same from
Mayor LaGuardia, LaGuardia's plan,
as well as the company unions plan
is to starve the strikers"
Joseph Gilbert, organizer Of the
Manhattan Local of the Taxi Driv-
ers Union, received an ovation
which aSted over five minutes,
when he appeared on the platform
to speak. He told how the hackmen
had been kicked from pillar to post
and how they were betrayed in the
first strike by Judge Panken, Mr.
Levy, Morris Ernst and other So
cialists and liberals. I'VE are de-
termined not TO be crushed by the
Psrmelee and Terminal Bosses" said
Gilbert. Our militant fight will
force the bosses to give us q living
wage. We know that we have the
support of the best section of the
working class in New York City"
Cheering and applause greeted
Samuel Orner, president Of the
union, who told how, when the first
strike began he was driving a cab
in New York. Orner stressed the
question Of fighting against the
Parmelee jim Grow system and told
how the union was carrying on a
special struggle for the Negro
cab drivers. Come out and help us
picket the day line at 6 a. m. in the
morning" said Orner. 1--WE must
have a 100 per cent picket line
around every garage"
The meeting, one of the most
enthusiastic held during the course
of the strike, did not only bring ad-
ditional financial support to the
striking drivers but brought addi-
tional moral support, and support
on the picket line throughout the
city from the various unions and
labor organizations.
Nathan schaeffer, speaking for
the International Workers Order
said; 1.-THE medical bureau stands
ready to aid medically the striking
taxi drivers. Our organization
pledges to bring, within two weeks,
1000 for the striking taxi drivers.
To begin with we are bringing 5000"
The meeting was also addressed
by Henry Shepard, organizer of the
Trade Union Unity Council of
Greater New York; Andrew Over
gard, General Secretary of the
Trade Union Unity Council; Sarah
LIGHT representative of the Wo-
mems Councils who gave $50 to the
strikers, and j. Baxter of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union who told
the strikers that ANY cab on the
waterfront will be tested to see If
it can run"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Illinois Miners and JObLeSs
Demonstrate for eva Jobs
Demand " 0rk, Passage
of H. r. 1898

CHICAGO, IL, March 2e.-While
Chicago workers are falling behind
the C. W. A. Job march to be held
here on Saturday, March 81, broad
masses Of employed and unemployed
workers and miners throughout the
state Of Illinois are modifying
against the Roosevelt abandonment
Of the C. w. A. for jobs and relief
to all unemployed, and for the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill.
The workers in Canton will dem
onStrate on March 81 at 2 pm. at
the Emergency Relief Administra-
ton. They are demanding a 100 per
cent increase in relief, continuation
and enlargement of C. w. A. to pro-
vide Jobs for all the unemployed,
and for the Workers Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance Bill
HR. 1899.
In Pana there will be a mass
meeting on March % at the Miners
Hall and q demonstration March 30.
In Peoria, an important mining,
railroad and industrial city, q mass
meeting will be held on March 30
at 2 pm. at the Ray Hotel, The
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill CHR. 1889 has been
endorsed by the Disabled Veterans,
with a membership of 160, and by
the Veterans Unemployment Coun-
Gil, with a membership of $50.
In Virden the workers will dem
onstrate at the Public Square on
March 81 at 2 pm. The Unemploy-
ment Councils have requested the
local merchants to close their stores
for one hour on that day. Locals Of
the Progressive Miners Of America
and the Women's Auxiliary have
endorsed the Workers Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance Bill.
In Springfield there will be a
Sangamon County demonstration
on Friday, March go at 2 pm. at
the Court House.
In Bloomington, a mass meeting
was held on Wednesday, March %.
The Plasterers' Local of the A. F.
Of L. and the Relief Workers
League have endorsed the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill CHR. 1899.
In Decatur the workers and
miners are demonstrating in Cen
trail Park on Thursday March %,
at pm.
In Hillsboro countrywide dem
onstration will be held on March
% at am. at the Court House.
In Centralia, where general
strike took place recently, a mass
meeting was called for Thursday,
March 90, at 2:3O pm. and dem
onstrstion on March 80.
In Glen Carbon, a County Con-
ference will be held on April s to
plan a struggle for the continual
ton and enlargement Of the c. w,
A. to provide jobs for all unem-
ployed, and for the Workers I'm
employment and Social Insurance
Bill (HR. 1899.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Theatre Is Being Used
for Recruiting Scabs

NEW YORK; was revealed
yesterday that the Monroe Theatre,
69th St. and First Ave, is being
used to recruit scabs to break the
strike of the workers employed by
the American Display Corporation.
ATS Tenth Ave. The strikebreaking
activities Of the Monroe Theatre
owners were brought to light when
workers answering an advertise
ment in the New York American for
artists in lettering, learned that
they were to be used as strikebreak-
ers at the American Display Cor
poration.
The workers at the American Dis
play Corporation have been on
strike for two weeks fighting fog
union recognition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Conrad Kay, Brooklyn
Food Strike Leader,
Given Five Days Jail

NEW YORK. Out of the %
workers who were arrested for pick
citing the Karp Brothers Fruit
Store, 1921 65th St., Brooklyn, which
has been on strike for some time
under the leadership Of the Food
Workers Industrial Union, % we're
dismissed and one, Conrad Kay, or
ganizer for the union, was given a
fiye-day Jail sentence.
A number of cases are still pend
ing before the Coney Island Court.
Picketing is still being continued at
the store.
Three more strikes-one at 298
Albany Ave, Brooklyn, one at the
Strauss Dairy, Eighth Ave. and
115th ST., Manhattan, and another
at the Zion Grocery, 66 Belmont
Ave, are still continuing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
KnitgOOdS Strikers
Score Bosses AID
Appeal to Public Is
sTissue of Lies

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March &c.
The members of the Knit Goods
Workers Union, Local 1859, were
highly incensed by the appearance
in the press of an ad paid for by
the employers. They view this as
beginning of a campaign to de-
stroy and disrupt their union.
7. H. Feingold, manager of the
union, stated That the appeal of
the employers to the people of
Philadelphia is a tissue of lies. The
mills were closed because our strike
is successful, because the employers
could not get the workers to enter
the mills and not because of vio-
lence.
THE union does not advocate
violence. We depend on the intelli-
gence Of the workers to be able to
Judge whether or not they wish to
strike, and the workers by their re-
Spouse showed their decision.
1.-THE employers claim that only
q handful we're striking. There are
over 1000 workers registered with
the union and that makes a mighty
big handful.
The three statements about
wages, code and employers willing
ness to meet with employees are I'M
true. The wages were not in
creased. In many instances they
were actually lowered. The union
is in possession Of pay envelopes of
the workers of the NJ. and M. Mills,
showing that they earned less than
the code minimum The Hub en-
ployers would give workers the full
minimum and enclose in a pay
envelope a request that in day or
two the workers return the differ
ence between $40 and s11, their ac-
tual wages, and s14, the minimum"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
By E. RICHARDS

The acreage reduction campaign
is in full swing, Illiterate and semi
illiterate sharecroppers, tenants,
and small farmers, both Negro and
white, are herded together like
cattle, asked few questions, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Bronx Workers in
C.P. Called Meet
HaiITaxiStrikerS
Speakers from Unions,
Communist Party
Address Crowd

NEW YORK.-An enthusiastic
meeting of workers was held in sup
port of the taxi drivers strike on
Wednesday night at 2075 Clinton
Ave, Bronx, N. Y, under the aus
pices of the Communist Party.
The meeting was addressed by
representatives from the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
who brought a donation of $3.50
for the strike fund, Rose Nelson,
organizer Of Section IS of the c. P,
who brought donation of SIS for
the strikers, and Harry Raymond,
representing the Daily Worker. M.
Taft was chairman Of the meeting.
An attempt to disrupt the meeting
was made by group of hooligans
who presented themselves as taxi
drivers. This group was soon Quoted
down by delegation Of taxi drivers
who came to the meeting from the
Manhattan Local Of the Taxi
Drivers Union. Joe Krauss, told of
the excellent support that the taxi
drivers have been receiving from
the Communist Party and the left
wing labor movement throughout
the city. He was greeted by long
applause when he sid that the
taxi drivers should support the
Communist Party.
A final collection taken up for
the strikers amounted TO S61.30.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30

What is your Unit, trade union,
mass organization doing to get
new subscribers for the Daily
Worker? Help put the sub drive
over the top!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30

eft of the parity payment which
may be made by the Secretary, to
the producer pursuant to the con-
tract"
Government Admits "SOme viii
Suffer"
It is very clear that the contract
is an excellent weapon in the hands
of the landlords for further en-
shaving the troopers and tenants,
both Negro and white. Thousands
will be evicted, while those who re-
main will have their starvation
rations cut more than so per cent.
This past winter has been more
severe than any previous winter;
the coming winter will be much
worse. Already scores of troopers
are hunting cabins" Many cab
ms stand empty, but the landlords
will not rent them, claiming, I'VE
will get more by renting TO the gov
eminent than by cropping this
land" This is what oscar John
son, of the Farm Credit Admins
tration, meant when he said: I'm
doubtedly the government will rent
a few public roads and sloughs, and
undoubtedly some men will suffer-"
tMy emphasize. RI
Rich Graft for Landlords,
Starvation for Choppers
When Landlord Deal, of Union
County, North Carolina, rented a
12-plot plantation from non-resi-
dent owner he evicted all but one
of the troopers an6 has now rented
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Downtown Communists Back
Cabmen

NEW YORK,-Responding to the
call of Section l Of the Communist
Party, more than 800 workers, in
Guiding 200 taxi drivers. attended
q mass meeting held last night at
Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth
St, to obtain funds for the drivers,
who are waging one Of the most
militant struggles experienced here
in years.
With Joseph Brandt, section or
ganizer, acting as chairman, $118
was collected for the drivers, 500
being donated by the Majestic Shop
unit of the Steel and Metal Work
erS Industrial Union.
Five taxi drivers joined the Com
munist Party.
Speakers included Carl Brodsky, a
striking taxi driver, Gene Morse,
and Sam Stein, of the International
Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Youth Win Demands

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, March %.
- Unemployed young workers won
another victory here in forcing the
granting Of an additional three days
a week work, at wages Of 1890
Two weeks ago 500 young workers
we're put on the C.W.A. payroll as
a result Of the youth struggles. One
of the provisions won was that
single workers receiving relief or
whose families received relief would
not be Disseminated against. After
the young workers had demanded
an additional three days work
month, they were again given work
this week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Atlantic City Demonstration

Atlantic City Demonstration
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.-CW.A.
workers here, many of whom have
been notified that they will receive
their last pay check this week, viii
demonstrate for the continuation
and enlargement of the C.W.A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Philadelphia Demonstration

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March g.
WORKERS here will demonstrate
against C.WA. firings at Rsebmn
Plaza, Saturday, March 81, at l pm.
Following the demonstration, the
workers will march through the
central part Of the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Can seven-County Conferences.
Is A. F. of L. Locals Join San
Francisco ton

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.-The city
wide demonstration, 10 be held here
on March 31st already involves As
workers organizations. Fifteen A.
F. of L. locals have endorsed the
united front, and viii mobilize their
membership to participate. The
workers demand the continuation
and enlargement of c. W. A. and
against the Roosevelt wage cuts.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-08-09

A definite date has finally been set
for the long deferred pre-school clinic
sponsored by the Woman's club. Miss
Marian Brakel, county nurse, has an
nounced that it will be held on Sep
tember "a. DR.. MCGOWAN, child spe-
cialist Of Seattle, will be in charge.
If possible, DR.. Spaulding of Ken
newick will also be present.
The original plan for the administra-
ton of the diphtheria toxoid will be
carried out. All children will be mea-
sured, weighed and thoroughly checked.
in accordance with the usual pro-
cedure.
Miss Brakel will be in White Bluffs
next Tuesday, August 10, and anyone
wishing to see her may make appoint
ments in advance by calling Mrs. D. s.
Wilkinson.