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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10
Texas Relief
Lists Slashed
AS Need Rises
Proof of DestitutiOn
Required of All
Relief Clients

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 9 FP)-
There will be no more funds for
relief in Texas unless the federal
government grants an application
for S2,000000 in advance, according
to Texas officials.
The number of persons needing
relief has continued to swell during
the summer months, and as the
harvest season ends, the number
will increase.
Relief for these destitute, limited
to $l,000,00O a month by the State
Legislature. must be stretched out
through elimination from the rolls,
officials have announced. The State
Board of Control in charge of the
relief administration is working
with the State Relief Commission to
eliminate as many clients as pos
sible from the relief rolls.
Relief is only granted on proof
of total restitution and local author
tiles have been instructed to en-
force the relief law which calls for
a penitentiary sentence OF from two
to five years for false swearing Of
restitution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10
California Relief Men
Travel Eighty Miles
To SERA Work Project

TUJUNGA, Cal, Oct. 9.-Under
the barrags of wage cuts lowering
still further the subsistence level of
the California unemployed, S. E. f.
A. workers are gradually learning
what the New Deal in this state
means.
On the little Tujunga Job No. 2l2,
two hundred men are building a
fire road in Angeles National Forest.
In spite OF their labor this road will
in all probability wash away with
the first rain. The shortest distance
that any one worker has to travel
is % miles Forty of the men travel
80 miles day for the privilege Of
working on job paying them an
average Of S35 per month.
They face real physical dangers.
Dynamite is used for blasting out
part of the road and thirty or
forty holes are shot at q time by
an electric battery. When this
method is used, the shots cannot
be counted and workers can't tell
if enc has been LETT unhred. There
is grave danger of accident here;
only recently a worker sank his pick
a few inches from the cap of one
such unfired shot.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10

Fires Worker
For Protest

NEW YORK. Sidonia Dawson
supervisory aide at the West Forty
Fourth Street Home Relief Bureau
was fired on Friday for protesting
against police attacks upon unem-
ployed workers. The Home Relief
Bureau Employees Association. with
a membership of 5000 in New York
City, is beginning a vigorous cam
paign for her reinstatement.
The firing Of Sidonia Dawson
arose out of the organized protest
Of the relief station employees after
police had dubbed delegation
from the Unemployment Council
at the precinct on Sept. %.
Meeting Immediately after work
that Gay, the Grievance Committee
of the precinct organization drew
up a statement protesting the use
of police, which was distributed to
all the employed
The relief administration coun-
tered Immediately by circulating a
petition through stool-pigeon ele-
ments calling for the discharge of
the entire grievance committee.
Sidonia Dawson, who has worked
in the Home Relief Bureau since
April, 1892, and was employed in
the City Commission Work Bureau
and the Emergency Work Bureau
Gibson Committee prior to estab-
lishment Of the present relief set
up under the Wicks Law, is an ex-
perienced social worker with spot
less record, inquiry revealed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10
CP Candidates
Now on Ballot
In Minnesota
S. X. Davis to Run for
CovernOr-NOminating
Petitions Filed

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. Oct. g.
That at least three candidates for
state Office will find places on the
ballot under the insignia of the
Communist Party has been made a
certainty by the filing of nominal
ing petitions with State election
authorities.
State law here requires the pay
ments of $50 filing fee for each
candidate, placing a severe tax on
the impoverished farmers and
underpaid and jobless workers who
are most interested in seeing Com
munist candidates on the ballot.
The three filed for State office are
S. K. Davis, for Governor; Alfred
ITALIA, for United States Senator,
and Robert Turner, for Secretary
of State. Beside these three, the
following Congressional candidates
have been nominated by petition:
Thomas Tracy in st. Paul; Peter
Sjodin in the Third District; Harry
Mayville in the Fifth District Min
neapolis), and Thomas Foley in the
Eighth District Duluth.
Nominating petitions are also ex-
pected to be filed for Emil Nygard,
former Communist Mayor of Crosby,
in the Sixth District and Bauman
in the Ninth District. The placing
of these petitions, however, is en-
dangered by the difficulty faced in
raising the required nominating
fees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10
By LEN DE CAUx

WASHINGTON, Oct. g (FP). -
The tactics whereby the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad may seek to circum-
vent the amended Railway Labor
Act, with its sharper restrictions on
company unionism. are being
watched with interest by Brother
hood leaders. At present company
union bodies are being recognized
as unions" with constitutions
changed to eliminate direct finan-
cial support by the company and to
keep within the letter of the labor
act.
The Pennsylvania is by far the
most powerful and aggressive Of the
company union railroads. It has
built up system whereby even the
Brotherhoods with which 1t has
contracts keep within the bounds
Of the company's grievance adjust
ment machinery. which also in
cludes the company unions. 1t has
also attained considerable success
in influencing the internal affairs
Of the Brotherhoods.
Delegates from the Pennsylvania
system have formed a powerful
bloc in many conventions, through
which it has been common gossip
that President W. w. Atterbury of
the company has frequently ex-
pressed his will A growing number
of Brotherhood general chairmen
on the Pennsylvania have become
officials of that road.
The latest labor move on the
Pennsylvania has been the signing
of an agreement by the company
with the new Maintenance of Way
Employees Union" which is the
successor to the Pennsylvania Sys-
tenn Fraternity. Salaries of the Of
f1cers of the old fraternity were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10

they may laugh at the wrong time
or on the wrong note
Big things are happening in the
American labor movement today
and there are a lot OF American
workers on the march in spite Of
all the A. F. OF L. officialdcm can
do. 1t would be a very wise thing
for some of these super sophisti-
Gated people who claim that the
workers can never do anything for
themselves to take couple of
looks at the labor front and then
ask themselves if it isn't Just pcs
sible that workers have started to
Go something for themselves and if
one doesn't agree with what they
are doing it might be better to get
out of the way.
To this convention which is
about as rank and file proof as the
Senate Of the United States, there
have struggled in delegates whose
mere presence is probably the besS
tribute to the unconquerable spirit
of the vast mass of American
workers.
Their numbers are not large but
anyone who doubts that they rep
resent the new contingents of or
ganized workers in the basic in
dustries has something wrong with
his head.
These delegates, far more in
number than the rank and file
committee estimated, are not to be
found in the Whitco.nb Hotel
where the official headquarters of
the A. F. of L. Convention are.
They will be found in pretty cheap
rooms somewhere around the Civic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10

gateS were present from A. F. of L.
locals in nearly all representative
industries.
Louis Weinstock, national secre-
tary Of the A. F. of L. Rank and
File Trade Union Committee, pre-
sented the committees report at the
first session. Weinstock outlined the
plans for nationwide struggle
for rank and file control, elimina-
ton of reactionary oss-controlled
officials, redress of grievances with
In the A. F. of L., and the passage
Of the Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill.
Rank and File Reports
During the following session, re-
ports we're presented by rank and
file delegates, reviewing the expert
ence and struggle within locals in
every part of the country.
Resolutions we're passed for I'M
employment insurance. for greater
democracy in the trade unions, for
the freedom of political opinion,
against the use of national guard
and hired thugs by employers, and
against injunctions.
Industrial Organization
Other resolutions called for the
reorganization of the trade unions
into industrial unions, condemning
Green's statement on the San Fran
cisco and Bay counties strike, for
exemption of unemployed union
men from dues payments, for the
release of Mooney, Billings and all
other political prisoners, against
war and fascism, against racial dis
elimination and against all anti
labor laws.
Fifteen hundred persons attended
the mass meeting called by the
Rank and File Committee at Eagles
Hall in connection with the Rank
and File Conference. Among the
speakers Az this mass meeting were
Henry Schrimpf of the LA; Will
liam Dietrich of the Railroad
Brotherhood. Maintenance of Way,
OC4lNCA lOOdl IT. AcopdI oouCI VI
the Butchers Union of Santa Cruz;
F. J. Mcconnell of the Conference.
for Labor,s Civil Rights, and Vein
stock, who is a member of local
499, New York painters.
National Conference Set
A national conference has been
called by the Rank and File Com
mittee to take place in Pittsburgh,
Oct. q and % at the National
Slovak Hall, 516-518 Court Place.
Local conferences of the A. F. of
L. Rank and File Committees are
now being held in preparation for
the national conference. All A. F.
Of L. local unions are urged to elect
delegates to the Pittsburgh confer
ence.
Delegates attending the San
Francisco rank and file conference
included workers from rubber, coal
and metal mining. meat, building,
vegetable packing, auto, machinists,
BARRIERS, cooks, cleaners and dyers.
needle, textile, shoe, marine and
other local unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10
Socialist Workers
Starve in Austrian
Concentration Camps

VIENNA, Oct. 9.-How hundreds
of Socialist workers, thrown into
the Woellersdorf concentration
camp without trial, are slowly starv-
ing to death under the most hor-
rible conditions. is revealed today
in reports and letters coming from
Vienna.
The Austrian fascists have estab-
lished whole system of such con-
centration camps for the wholesale
Imprisonment of workers without
trial. The brutality of the Schnusch-
nigg administration seizes on any
fragment of an excuse for arrest,
some workers having been dis
patched to the camp prisons on the
mere suspicion of "subversive" po-
litical opinion.
OF those who took any part in
the February revolution, apart from
those who were hanged, 1882 ar
rested workers we're sentenced be-
tween February and August to 1889
years of imprisonment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10
Navy Yard Workers Win
Release of Two Jailed
i'm Bremerton, Wash.

BREMERTON Wash, Oct. g.
Roy De Groan and George Ferris.
arrested last Thursday in front of
the Bremerton Navy Yard for
distributing copies of the Yard
Worker" organ of the Yards Com
munist Party unit. we're sentenced
yesterday to five days.
With the courtroom peaked by
protesting workers, the Judge was
forced to rule that they had al
ready served their time, however,
and ordered their release and the
return of the literature confiscated
by the police.
From the courtroom, the assem-
bled workers went directly to the
gate of the Navy Yard. where they
held a noon gate meeting protest.
ing the attack on the workers
press.
The Navy Yard unit countered the
threat Of suppression with a spe-
cial edition on Monday, exposing the
arrests as an attempt to stifle the
struggles of the workers for better
conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10
Trenton Plans
Protest Rally
On Scottsboro

TRENTON, N. j., Oct. "A mass
meeting to protest the recent de-
cision of the Alabama Supreme
Court upholding the Scottsboro
lynch verdicts was called by the
local emergency Scottsboro Cam
paign Committee for Saturday eve
ming. $3.50 o'clock. at the st. Paul
Church, 508 N. Willow St.
Angelo Herndon. Negro hero of
the Atlanta instruction trial and
now out on bail pending appeal, will
be the main speaker. Mrs. Ida
Norris, Scottsboro mother. and
Richard B. Moore, who are accom-
panying Herndon on nation wide
tour, will speak in addition to the
following local leaders, Alex White,
Section Organizer of the Commu-
mist Party; Mrs. Griffin, militant
Negro worker, and Sam Beagles
from Princeton.
An admission of ten cents will
be charged to cover expenses of the
meeting and raise funds for the
Scottsboro-Herndon appeals to the
U. S. Supreme Court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10
Machinist Delegate at AL. Farley Tells Leaders
Soviet Labor Democracy Is Greater Than T. S.

knew the hard boiled and cynical
character of the average building
trades delegate and they were really
at loss to explain the insistence
of this delegate that there was
more democracy in the Soviet
Union labor movement than in the
good old U. S. A.
A little inquiry, however, brought
out the following amazing facts.
This particular delegate is a mem
Der of local union of machinists
in the Navy Yard in Vallejo. More
than that he is regularly elected
delegate from the Vallejo Central
Labor Council.
On top of all this, and please
remember that Vallejo is in the
Bay counties area where labor has
been under bitter and violent at
tack previous to, during and after
the general strike, and he stands
instructed by this Central Labor
body to demand and get forty-f five
minutes time in the A. F. of L.
Convention to explain what is going
on in the Soviet Union.
If the convention does not grant
him this forty-five minutes then
his Central Labor body has given
him further instructions; to ask for
the impeachment of the entire
Executive Council.
There will be lot of people who,
knowing the organized official COM
position of an A. F. OF l.. ccnven-
ton, may get big laugh out of
this incident. But, speaking Just
as person who knows the Amer
lean Labor movement fairly we'll,
l would like to warn them that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10
Many Rallies Held in Buffalo Speed Hunger March Plan
Penn Railroad Officials Exert
CrO'Oing Influence on Leaders
of Rail Brotherhood Unions
New Company Unions Are Established Under
Amended National Railway Act

paid by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
as were expenses of meetings and
otlNr activities, but under its new
name these practices have pre-
sumably been eliminated to keep
within the new lay.
The Pennsylvania Fraternity has
a somewhat different history from
other similar bodies. in that it was
formed as an organized breskaway
from the International Brother
hood of Maintenance of Way En-
ployes, to which the men formerly
belonged. The Pennsylvania lodges,
after sharp convention fight.
broke away in body and formed
the Pennsylvania Fraternity in
1921.
Brotherhood officials. however.
declare that they have long been
on friendly terms with the Fra
ternity. which they do not regard
like other company unions and
which they have refrsined from at
lacking. At the present time there
is possibility that the Fraternity
or rather its successor. may re-
affiliate as body with the
Brotherhood. though which way the
Pennsylvania Railroad may throw
its influence is likely to be of deci-
sive Importance.
Standard railroad labor organiza-
tions with which the Pennsylvania
railroad has contracts are the
Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, the Brotherhood Of Loco
motive Firemen and Enginemen,
the Order Of Railway Conductors,
the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men and the Brotherhood Of Rail
road Signalmen none of which is
affiliated with the American Fed
grafton of Labor. Most of the rest
of the workers have long been or
ganized in company unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10
Unemployed, Farmers
and Workers Picket
in Railroad Stri K e

MINNEAPOLIS. MINI, Oct. 81
Shipment Of strikebreakers for the
resurfacing gangs on the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad at
Pippen. Wisconsin, was halted Sat-
urday by the Unemployment -Goun-
ellis here. ~.e.-
After a meeting held before the
unemployment Office which was
shipping the scabs for jobs paying
90 cents an hour, a picket line was
established and committee. de-.
manded that the shipping of soab5
be stopped.
The men on the road gangs who
are striking were being Paid $3.50
for an eight-hour DAY. Out of. this
was taken sixty cents for meals and
eighty cents for Sunday meals, only
two of which we're served.
The resurfacing gangs are main
tanning their picket lines despite
tear gas attack b. the police. The
United Farmers League is helping
to feed the strikers and is JOHNS
on the picket line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10
Mass Drive Launched
by Philadelphia LID.
To Free Robert Clark

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 9Th e
International Labor Defense here
has launched mass CAMPAIGN for
the release of Robert Clark. who
was jailed last week when he re-
fused to sign pledge to discon-
tinue his activities among the I'M
employed
Clark. Organizer of the North
Philadelphia Section of the Unem-
ployment Council. was framed up
while leading struggle to prevent
the eviction of the Fishers. Ne
gro couple of 1888 St. Luke ST.
Workers. modified by Clark. had
prevented Constable Smith from
evicting the couple. Some time
later, Smith sent a note to the
Fishers, saying Come to nv office
Tuesday morning, or else
The Fishers informed The Unem-
ploycd Council of the constable's
threat, and Comrade Clark headed
a delegation of five to go to the
constable'S office to protest against
his Threatening of the Negro couple.
Clark was Immediately arrested and
charged with threatening to do
bodily harm. and disorderly con-
duct" He was held in $1,000 bail.
At the trial, Judge Francis Skunk
Brown declared that the Unem-
ployment Council had no right" to
protect the Negro couple from evic-
ton. He ordered Clark to sign q
peace bond. which Clark refused to
DO. The militant worker was then
committed to Mayamensing prison.
The I. L. D. is calling on all
workers and their organizations to
send protests to Judge Francis
Skunk Brown, 1927 Drexel Road,
Phila.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10

; throughout the State will converge
on Albany, where after a State. con-
ference. they will march in a body
to the State House and present the
demands of the unemployed to
Governor Lehman. -.
These demands call for an inn
mediate special session of both
houses of the State Legislature Tor
the enactment of the Workers I'M
m p oy m e Mt Insurance Bill, the.
Small Home and Property Owners
Relief Bill, and sufficient appropria-
tons to provide adequate Winter
relief.
Workers Bill Pushed
The Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill which has been en-
dorsed by millions of American
workers through their unions and
organizations, provides for the pay
ment of benefits equal to local
average wages to all workers I'M
employed through no fault of their
own. The Workers Bill was initi-
ated by the Communist Party and
is incorporated in the Communist
Party cleo ion platform.
The Small Home and Property
Owners Relief Bill provides for
moratorium on all foreclosures and
sheriff sales for the duration of the
crisis.
Buffalo Rally Oct. 26
In Buffalo, arrangements are be-
ing speeded for a city-wide rally to
send off the delegates on oct. 2e.
Factory gates are being covered
with mass meetings where con-
tributions are being received to sup
por the march. Although the
A. F. of L. Central Council has
denied the floor to representatives
from the hunger march committee,
each local union is being APP
preached for the election of dele
gates to the march.
A mass delegation will go before
the City Council tomorrow to pre-
sent demands for endorsement of
the march and for petitioning
Governor Lehman for calling of the
special session of the State Legisla-
ture for enactment of the Workers
Bill.
Meeting in Syracuse
A mass meeting attended by hum
dreds of workers was held in Syra-
cuse last week. From this meeting
committee was elected to present
demands for increased relief and
endorsement of the hunger march
to Commissioner Abbott. Thirty
delegates have been elected from
Syracuse.
A recent delegation forced Federal
Transient Director Baker to promise
to feed and house the marchers as
they pass through the city.
Similarly. mass meetings are be-
ing held in Utica, Rochester, James
town, Rome and Niagara Falls.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10
Mills in South
Ready to Make
War Products
Birmingham Plants Can
Make 100000 Shells
Monthly, Says Officer

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Not less
than million and half shells a
month is "a conservative estimate
of what factories in the Birming-
ham district are prepared to turn
out for the Army and Navy upon
the declaration of war, Captain
J. D. Mcintyre of the United States
Army Ordnance Department, re-
vesled in talk before the Real Es-
tate Board here.
Claiming that the Birmingham
industrial district can make more
shells for war ammunition than
any other district in the country,
he said that there are 63 plants
where service could be obtained. -
"a of them in the immediate Bir-
mingham district. Among those
plants whom he definitely named
as lined up" were the Tennessee
Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. CU. S.
SteeD, Virginia Bridge and Iron
Co, Hardie-T ynes Manufacturing
Co. and Stockham Pipe and Fit
tines Co.
Plans to "acquaint the manage
ments and men with what the gov
eminent wanted in case there
should be an emergency" have been
made, the captain revealed, and
said that the executives have al
ready pledged cooperation.
Delegates from the mines and
mills of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron Co. attended the Congress
Against War in Chicago and are
now reporting to groups of workers
in the shops on organization plans
and methods of the toilers to COM
bat the war plans of the ruling
class right here, in the most vital
points.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10
WHAT'S ON
CleucIcad. Ohio


GENERAL Victor A. Yakhontof speaks
On The Soviet Union and the Far Fast
ern Situation" Thursday Oct. II, pm.
locomotive Engineers Bldg. Ontario and
st. Clair Ave. Auspices: F.s.U.
"KREPKIN play en- the Russian Rsyo-
lutlcn chewing for the first time. by
Branch 2oss SLOW See. Two, together
with the Dram. Circle Of SLOW. workers
Org. SUNDAY. Oct Il, at Bohemian Ma
tional Hall. ae15 Broadway, 4 pm. sharp.
Adm. SOC in adv. CSC at door.
Omaha. Neb.
TALK on Fight Of the Unemployed Tor
the Right to Live by VIM. Reynolds at
Workers Cultural Center. 2404 Perket st.
1900 Block on No. gath St., Sunday. c.
tober IA.
Chicago, III.
BARNARD HY-JINX. Something new.
Apple Bobbins, Cider. Square Dances. Pop
corn. Wednesday, Get. 81, s pm at
2457 w Chicago Ave. Peoples Auditorium.
Auspices Dist. YC.L.
Detroit, Mich.
JOSHUA KUNITZ, editor New Masses,
lectures at John Reed Club Room io8 W.
Hancock Ave, pm. Friday, Oct. IL.
on Artists in Red Uniform