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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-08
Bits of News From
Throughout World
(By The Associated Preas)

CUBAN SITUATION QUIET
Havar1a.-With the labor situation
in hand and . general
strike threat squelched, President
Mendieta took precautionary measures
to guard against terrorism. Several
bombs exploded during the night.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-08

Tokyo.-Baron Nakajirna re-
signed Is minister Of commerce
and industry and Joji Matsumoto
was named to succeed him.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-08

Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday:
somewhat warmer tonight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24

Kaynee Plant
Bosses ak
At Vote Ruling
Union Officials Move
to Steer Fight Into
Legal Channels

CLEVELAND, o., Dec. 2S-An
appeal against the decision of the
National Labor Board ordering an
election in the Kaynee Co. Cleve-
land plants will be filed in the U. S.
Circuit Court of Appeals announced
George P. Wakefield, company pres
ident.
This appeal automatically stays
the elections ordered by Dec. 20 by
the Labor Board which in its de-
cision established that the Kaynee
Company sponsored employees as
ISOLATION was definitely of COM
pany union character.
Beryl Peppercorn, manager of
the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers Of America, that is leading the
strike, announced that the union
is going to ask for the removal of
the Blue Eagle from the company's
Bucyrus plant. According to this,
the A.C.W. leaders are definitely
abandoning the picketing of the
Bucyrus plant and lead the fight
entirely into legal channels.
Workers of the Kaynee Com
pany's three plants in Cleveland
have been on strike for close to two
months now. The plants are COM
pletely shut down. Only the Bucyrus
plant is in operation, with some
hundred and twenty workers. Two
weeks ago the unions made mil
liant show Of mass picketing which
was abandoned a few days later.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
All-Star Show
TOCreet' DaiIy'
In Chicago
StevedOre Cast to Act
On Anniversa airy
Gala Night

CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. %. The
Daily Worker Anniversary will be
celebrated here with an AlI-Star
New Theatre Night on Saturday
evening, Jan. 5, at Turner Hall, 800
N. Clark Street.
In addition to performances by
the 'Stevedore" cast, four revolu-
tionary plays will be presented.
These are the famous ''Newsboy';;
"Lynched"; Troops are Marching;
and the Capitalist Follies of 1885"
Other popular features are on the
program, as well.
The Chicago Daily Worker Office
yesterday urged all Communist
Party units, mass organizations and
trade unions to put in their re-
quests for tickets as quickly as
possible.
Tickets are IS cents in advance
and can be secured at all Workers
Bookshops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
Soviet Acts
On Trade Pact
With France

MOSCOW, Dec. % CBy WiSeless)
indicative of the rising exporting
strength of the Soviet Union, the
text of the trade protocol signed at
Moscow Dec. 9 by Commissar for
Foreign Trade Rosengoltz and Min
lister of Trade and Industry Mar
chandeau Of France was published
in the newspapers today.
The protocol provides that nego-
tiationS begin as soon as possible to
conclude a treaty concerning trade
settlements and navigation, substi-
tuting the provisional trade agree
ment of Jan. II, 1884. In order to
conclude this agreement, the follow
ing proposals were considered which
could serve as a foundation: The
opening of the French market to
the U. S S. r., credits, their amount,
terms, duration of cotracts, inter-
eSt-which must be defined and
which is to be granted for a GER
tain number of years and at normal
interest rates. This credit is, to be
utilized as payment on orders to
be given to French industry for a
period of one year. The U. S. S. r.
will grant credits to French export
ers.
If a new trade agreement could
not be concluded before Jan. 1885,
then the agreement Of Jan. II, 1894,
remains in power during 1885 until
the end Of new negotiations, which
must be ended in the shortest pos
sible time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
.BuildinggLOan
Associations
Close Doors
More Than a Thousand
DepositOrs Affected
in Cleveland

CLEVELAND, o.. Dec. 23.-Seven
building and loan associations were
closed and twenty were ordered to
reorganize within three months by
the State Building and Loan De-
partment as further proof that
the financial crisis is deepening.
The closing affects between 1900
to 1000 small depositors and share
holders, the majority of them faced
with the loss Of their entire savings.
With six loan associations already
in liquidation, the closing of the
seven announced now and the
twenty restricted from accepting
deposits, making loans or selling
stocks only AZ loan associations re-
main open in Cuyahoga County.
The closed and restricted loan as
sociations claim combined assets of
s44,000,0OO, most of it solidly
frozen" in real estate far belsW
its book value.
The closing of these loan asso-
Citations, besides robbing thousands
Of depositors of their life's savings,
will mean the intensifcation OF
wholesale foreclosures and evictions
instituted by the large banks
through speeded up and forced
liquidation" of assets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24

1884, Before US. Senate committee.
declared, there are no membership
dues" in the company union. He
characterized the craft form of or
ganization as ''tl1e archaic structure
of ma t i on al and international
unions" Young gave long list of
unions which various crafts in the
steel industry might Join and de-
clared, TO simply recite the names
of these unions is to envision over
tapping confusion and jurisdictional
disputes and yet to leave wide gaps
of coverage for thousands of en-
ployes for whom no unions are
formed"
Young even spoke of discrimina-
ton against Negro workers and I'M
skilled workers, as practiced by A.
F. of L. union leaders. He said.
land not all of our tradesmen are
eligible to some of the unions listed,
because of aristocracy' traditions,
and class and color distinctions pre-
vailing in the unions"
Company Union "PIans"
The company unions parade as a
rank and file" organization, free
from outsiders. without any dis
elimination. The Joker" is con-
cealed in the agreements of these
company unions. In the steel indus
try they contain the following
clause, THE management of the
works, and the direction of the
working forces, including the right
to hire, suspe or discharge
for proper cause, or transfer, and
the right to relieve employees of duty
because of lack of work or for other
legitimate reasons, is vested ex-
clusively in the management"
from the National Tube Steel Mill
plan" McKeesport).
The bitter pill which the paternal-
istic demagogy of Young and Finley
hides is also found in the section in
these company union plans" which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24

deals with workers grievances. Any
grievance must be taken up first
with the superintendent concerned; 3"
second, with the arrangements
representative; third, with the
management; fourth, with the
joint committee" which consists of
management and comany union en-
ployes; fifth "the matter shall be
referred to the president of the COM
pany" 1t then goes to arbitration"
and then to the Secretary of Labor
The fact that such demagogic
tricks are being seen through by the
workers is shown by the fact that
in the Westinghouse Electric, the
workers, although they ell c re d
Moran, elected with him as their
other representative, real militant,
rank and file worker, who received
a higher vote for departmental COM
mitteeman, than did Moran.
The workers are told by the COM
pany union--your leaders are bad,
therefore, accept a company union
which vests all rights in the en-
ployer and which never holds meet
ings The election in the Westing-
house shows that militant workers
can be elected in the company
union elections. These workers can
then call meetings of the employees,
to collectively formulate their de-
mands. These representatives of the
rank and file can expose the COM
pany union, can lay the basis for
real organization. They can show
the workers that without an indie
pendent organization based on
struggle, they can't win their de-
mands, and that the company un-
ion is the instrument of the en-
ployers.
In the steel industry, of course, the
real solution for the bad leaders"
of the A. F. of L., is not the COM
pany union, but the Rank and File
leadership in the A. A. The Rank
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24

through his militant" talk within
the company union.
Growth of Company Unions
The company unions have grown
tremendously under the protection
of the MIRA. and the Labor Boards.
The Economic Notes of the Labor
Research Association of December,
1888 printed an estimate of the
growth of the company unions COM
piled by the Pen and Hammer. This
survey found that plants in which
the employers have instituted the
"employe representation" plan en-
ploy 300 per cent more workers than
before MIRA. Nearly five million
workers are employed in plants
which have instituted the company
union. This does not mean of
course, that five million workers ap-
prove the company union.
A conversation with a steel work.
er recently in Braddock will illus
trate what the employers consider
membership" in the com amy
union. Il have worked in the
Thompson rail mill in Braddock
for six years" this worker told me.
There is company union there.
Every year we have to vote in the
company union elections. I have
not been called to a meeting of the
company union in the six years I've
been in the plant. But I'm con-
sidered member of the company
union"
Pamphlet Cites Demagogy
The demagogic manner in which
the company unions operate is Illus
trated by the sixteen-page pamphlet
distributed by the United States
Steel Corporation entitled New
Facts About Unions" This pamph-
let is written by steel trust en-
ploye, James B. Finley, who is pres
ident Of the Allegheny Steel EN-
ploye's Union of Breckenridge, the
company union. 1t is distributed
not only to the steel workers but to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
Hitler Forming Staff
OF War, Report Shows

WARSAW, Dec. 23.-Hitler is about
to create General Staff for War,
according to information obtained
by a correspondent OF the Polish
Telegraph Agency here. Among the
candidates for Chief OF Stan have
been nominated Generals Won Book
and Lehman.
A gigantic underground munitions
factory has just been constructed
near Scharnhorst. q suburb Of Celle,
as verified by workers In the plant.
The personnel comprises about 1000
workers who labor up to Is hours a
day. Another underground NUM-
tions factory Is in course of con-
struction near Lehrte; the former
Scheun airdrome has also been
transformed into a munitions fac
tory.
The Strechamel factories Of
Hanover, which after next Jan. /
pass into control of Hanomag, are
making steel-reinforced shells and
considerable quantities of grenades.
These shells, Of which 10000 are
made daily, are able to pierce a
piece OF steel millimeters thick.
The same factory daily produces 300
s6n1m. mortar shells and 1000
s6nnm. shells for artillery defense
against tanks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
Company Unions Give Rosy Pledges To Keep Workers from Striking

The company unions are attempt
ing to entrench themselves among
the workers in the, basic industries
by making rosy promises and by the
use OF demagogic attacks upon the
misdeeds and sellouts Of the leaders
OF the American Federation of La
Dor.
In the Westinghouse Electric Co.,
in Pittsburgh, where at present from
six to seven thousand workers are
employed, special type of dem
agogy is employed by the company.
In this plant, which has had no
trade union organization since 1916.
there is demagog named Pete
Moran, who is the chief promise
maker Of the company union.
Moran, a member of the executive
committee of the company union,
puts up big show of making a
fight for the demands and the griey-
ances OF the men. He Is always busy
lighting" for some employees rights.
But the workers are beginning to
see that Moran, who talks mil
itantly," is tool of the company in
keeping out the real trade unions.
Moran is always busy WITH AN
INDIVIDUAL CASE. Pete Moran.
in spite of his militant" talk, tries
to keep the workers satisfied with
and chained to the company union
and to keep them from getting to-
gether and organizing Independently
of the company.
In the last election campaign,
Moran, through his militant talk,
got himself elected on the Demo-
cratic ticket to the state legislature
OF Pennsylvania. He still maintains
his position as official in the COM
pany union. He attempts to keep
the workers chained to the Roose-
welt party, to keep them from COM
ing under the influence Of the party
Of the workers-the Communist
Party-just as he tries to keep
real trade union out Of the plant
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
Tells
OF WOmen's
Role in Fight
Says That Housewives
Can Find Time for
Class Struggle

How husband feels about the
Working Woman Contest, is inter
estingly told in a letter received by
the Working Woman magazine, New
York, this week.
my wife is a fellow fighter in
the class struggle" the husband
says.
The contest, which is in its last
month, will end Jan. 25. 1t is based
on the letter of woman who asks
advice on what to do, since her hus-
band, who has many interests out
side his Job, will not let her attend
working-clas meetings. Sixties en-
prizes will be given to winning let
tiers. The first prize is hamper
of White Rose canned products; the
second, a Westinghouse adjustable
heat, electric iron. Other prizes will
be published in the January issue of
the Working Woman, off the press
in a few days.
The husbands letter, said;
"In answering the now famous
letter, in which was raised the prob
lem of the housewife whose hus-
band does not let her join an or
ganization, I, as another husband
would like to answer it by telling
the husband what to do.
"Lenin said; There can be no
mass movement without women.
Lenin knew. Every class conscious
worker must know. I know this.
Therefore I belong to the Commu-
mist Party, the leader of all work
ers' struggles. My wife belongs to
the Women's Councils. We each
have our specific interests and &C
tivities. She finds time from the
dull duties of house wife and
mother to attend her organizations
meetings; to go canvassing; to at
tend mass meetings; to participate
in neighborhood struggles. She finds
time-and I help her find time-by
cooperating with her.
MY wife is a fellow-fghter in the
class struggle. I can depend on her
if conditions were to force us into
the ranks of the already unem-
ployed millions.
MY own wife has become a polit-
ical and organizational personality,
instead of house drudge. That to
my mind is a compliment for the
husband as we'll as for the wife,
There is only one way out: Co.
operation and comradeship!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
500 Cleveland Workers ROut
Police and BaiIifs and Halt
EUictiOn and Foreclosure

before her, hit the prowling mort
gage-holder with the full force of
a bundle of kitchen utensils which
she carried. He took to his heels
while a score of women followed
him with ropes in their hands.
Hardly had the bailiff finished
when the workers rushed the pile
of furniture and began piling it
back into the house. Police barring
the front door were brushed aside;
workers piled the furniture back
within fifteen minutes. Every piece
of furniture was placed into its
original position and the stove, gas
and electricity re-connected.
At this point the loan company's
private thugs arrived. According to
the most recent practices of the
banks and loan companies, these
thugs are employed to live in the
forecloSed property to stop the
evicted families from moving back
A Cry, Here come the scabs,
rang out. Workers from all direc-
! lions surged toward the armed
thugs, who did not wait for the
charge, but took to their heels.
Ye ste I'd ay the Unemployment
Councils and the Small Home and
Land Owners Federation reafirmed
their intention of modifying the
full force of their membership to
stop every eviction and foreclosure
and to meet every challenge of the
bankers and insurance companies
to carry out wholesale evictions with
the combined forces of private
armed thugs and the police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
By CARL REV E

the aluminium and other workers.
This pamphlet consists of a series
of letters" from Finley addressed
to Fellow Workers of America" All
of these letters attack the sellouts
and bureaucratic acts of the A. F.
of L. leaders. The first letter is
m ore openly fascist, attacking
Communist agitators" and self
seeking labor leaders," appealing for
industrial peace, prosperity and
happiness" and urging the workers
to reject "un-American methods
and revolution" ut is time we re-
membered that we are American
citizens" Finley says.
The second letter analyses the first
settlement which William Green and
company sought to enforce on the
aluminium workers, and shows that
the only point insisted on by Green
was the check-off. Such proposal
amounts to a complete sell-out of
the workers" say the righteous Fin
ley. He quickly draws the conclu-
sion that strikes are a bad thing,
After the misery and suffering of a
prolonged strike who gets the bene-
fit? The current epidemic of strikes
sponsored by organized labor are for
one main purpose only-to enable
labor leaders to secure control
throughout the country. 1t is the
striking workers who lose"
Other letters attack the general
textile strike, attack the high dues
charged in the A. A. by Mike Tighe.
The pamphlet winds up with the
virtues" of the company unions
no high dues, the workers settling
their own disputes" and labor rack
eteers" out in the cold.
This demagogic approach of the
company union to the worker was
laid down by Arthur Young, vice.
president of the United States Steel
Corporation. in charge of labor rela-
lions. Young, testifying on April S,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
Organizers Are Freed
As Bethlehem Workers
Expose Framed Charge

BETHLEHEM, Pa, Dec. 23.-Two
organizers of the International
Pocketbook Workers Union, A. F.
of L., A. Rosen and Charles Remer,
who were sent here from New York
few days ago to organize the local
shops, were arrested and kept in
Jail for 81 hours as Suspicious" in
dividuals.
An attempt was made at the hear
ing in court to frame the organizers
on the charge that they made eff
forts to mislead Is girls into white
slavery in New York" The frame
up was, however, exposed and the
workers released.
The two workers were arrested
while in a restaurant, talking to
other workers. Abe Greenberg,
owner of the Ohio Bag Company
which operates an open shop in
Bethlehem, was seen near the res
taurant at the time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
Soviet Metal
WOrkersCi
Decorations


MOSCOW, Dec. % (By wireless)
BY decree of the Central Execu-
tive Committee of the u. S. S. r.,
a number of workers of the first
Kuznetsk Stain Metallurgical Plant
were awarded the Order of Lenin
and the Order of Labor of the Red
Banner. The decree was published
throughout the Soviet Union.
Now operating in this plant are
four cooking batteries of SIS ovens
each, three blast furnaces producing
on the average $500 tons of pig
iron a day, ten open-hearths whose
daily production is 1900 tons OF
steel, a blooming rail and beam
mill.
Since starting production the
plant has already supplied the
country with 100000 tons of pig
iron, 854, 900 tons of steel, and 417,-
900 tons of rails. During IL months
and 10 days of 1884 the plant pro-
duced $4,000 tons of pig-iron, $685.
600 tons of steel, $4,000 tons of
rolled metal. In addition to the
Kuznetsk Stain Plant, a second
metallurgcal plant is under con-
struction in Siberia.
The operation Of this plan has
meant the independence of the So
Wet Union from the necessity of
importing raw steel and iron and
the driving forward of all produc-
ton in every sphere at tremen-
dously increased tempo.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. %. -
After chasing off the mortgage
holder and routing the thugs en-
ployed by the loan company, five
hundred members of the Small
Home Owners Federation and the
Unemployment Councils moved the
furniture of John Dzudzinski, 1904
w. Sixteenth Street, back into his
home while three squads of police
stood helplessly by. just as mill
tant farmers have displayed hang
mems ropes when stopping sheriff
sales, in stopping the eviction and
foreclosure here Friday, housewives
carried lengths of rope as they
pursued the fleeing thugs employed
by the mortgage loan company.
Acting on the pleas of a group of
twenty-five bankers, who had previ-
ously appeared before the City
Council, three squads of police were
dispatched to the eviction scene.
The 500 workers assembled by the
Councils and the Small Home and
Land Owners Federation crowded
the sidewalks from early morning on.
Catcalls greeted the sheriff and his
deputies, who under string of po-
lice guards carried the furniture out.
Every effort Of the police to drive
the workers away was repulsed.
While the police were thus en-
gagged, the holder of the second
mortgage, who was prompted by the
Lincoln Heights Savings and Loan
Company to foreclose on the prop
erty, arrived to supervise the evic-
ton. The embittered Mrs. Dzud-
zinski, seeing her life savings melt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
No Clothes-No Job;
No Job-No Clothes

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Dec. %. - Sixty
unemployed workers who were
working on a snow shoveling relief
Job in the West Chicago Park Dis
trict here Thursday were sent home
and refused further work when they
banded into a committee and de-
n1anded warm clothing and over
shoes.
Instead Of granting their demands
for clothing, the head foreman gave
each man a note addressed to the
relief department. The notes read ::
you are sent home from work on
this date because you are insult
ffciently clothed to combat weather
conditions. Do not report until
properly clad, for you will not be
permitted b work.