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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
400 Strikers
Tie Up Frisco
Ocean Liners
Strike of arg e m EN-
Is S old After
Four Weeks

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 90
Thousands of tons of freight are
piled on the docks here as ranks of
the 400 striking bargemen remain
solid, seriously tying up docks Of
major steamship lines. Operation of
river steamers to Sacramento and
Stockton has been completely sus-
pended. The Panama Pacific,
Grace, Luckenbach and American
Hawaiian lines are among those
most seriously affected
The bargemen, members of the
In t ernat ion al Longshoremen's
Union, are entering the third week
of their strike for IS cents per hour
and SIPS for overtime. A proposal
of the employers for 66 cents per
hour was turned down by the
strikers. Their present wages are
so cents per hour with no increase
for overtime. The workers agreed
to call off previous strike when the
Regional Labor Board promised &C
ton that was never forthcoming.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Protest Urged
Against Trial
For Rakosi

Indictment has been brought
against Matthias Rakosi in Buda-
pest and his trial is expected almost
Immediately, according to informa-
ton received here by the Inter-
national Labor Defense yesterday.
Rakosi is still held in Jail by the
Hungarian government, though the
eight and half year term to which
he was sentenced in 1928 expired
some months ago.
The indictment against Rakosi, 1t
is now learned, lists every execu-
ton of counter-revolutionists car
ried out during the rule of the So
VETS in Hungary, and charges him
with murder in each case. He is
also charged with "counterfeiting"
because the Hungarian Soviets
seized the banknote printing press
and issued their own currency. He
is charged with responsibility for
every arrest made during the Pc
Rod Of Soviet rule.
Death by hanging is demanded by
the state for Rakosi.
The I. l.. d. has called for the
organization of the broadest cam
paign, directed in protest to the
Hungarian embassy at Washington
and to the Hungarian consulates
throughout the country, demanding
the freedom of Rakosi. An inter-
national campaign in 1925, it was
pointed out, forced the military
court which originally tried and
sentenced him to death, to with
draw its verdict and sentence and
turn him over to civil court, which
imposed the prison sentence Rakosi
has now finished serving.
A number of Peoples Commissars
under the Hungarian Soviets, who
are Social Democrats, are now liv-
ing in peace and quiet in Hungary
1t was pointed out, while Rakosi
who has already served eight and
a half years of inhuman torture. is
named as "chief instigator" and
accomplish and is to be tried for
the actions of the revolutionary gov
eminent of Hungary fifteen years
ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
tspeeiaI 70 the Daily Worksrl

BIRO-BIDJAN, Dec. 20 (By wire
less) The first Congress of Soviets
of the first Jewish Autonomous
Region in the world opened here
on Dec. 10.
Over three hundred d l eg a t S,
from every section of the Region,
from the collective farms and the
new construction works, were pres
ent at the Congress. Numerous
delegations from all the vari gu S
Republics and Regions of the Soviet
Union came to bring greetings, and
congratulations poured in from
thousands of organizations and in
dividuals. Greetings to the histori-
cal Congress also came from New
York, Los Angeles, Paris, Warsaw,
and from every other big city in
the world.
The Central Executive Committee
of the Soviet Government, through
its President, Mikhail Kalinin, sent
a telegram hailing the formation of
the Jewish Autonomous Region as
one of the great gains of the
October Revolution and as a new
proof of the answering feminist
Stalinist national policy. The tele-
gram said:
1.-THE All-Russian Central Execu-
tive Committee expresses full con-
fidence that with the international
fraternal aid of the toilers of the
whole country, under the leadership
of the Communist Party, the Jew
ish Autonomous Region will secure
great victories on all fronts of
socialist construction.
Region Actually Formed in 1928
The history of the Jewish Auton-
omous R gio n is older than the
act of its formation. Actually it
began in 1928, when the Soviet gov
eminent made a decision to set
aside the BRO Bidjan district of the
Far East for population by toiling
Jews, Even this decision foresaw
the possibility of the conversion of
the district into an autonomous
Jewish national territorial unit if
the experiment of colonization gave
favorable results. The experiment
has fully justified itself.
During the past six years the
economic physiognomy of Bro
Bidjan has been completely trans
formed. scores of scientific re-
search expeditions have studied and
described the exceptional natural
wealth of the region-forests, iron,
magnesite, coal, gold, graphite, furs,
fish, and fertile land. The exploita-
ton Of this wealth has already
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Bankers to Confer
With Roosevelt
(Contitlted from Fac 1

ing the U. s. Chamber of Commerce
and the National Association of
Manufacturers, calls for the most
drastic attack on wage scales and
unions since the years following the
last war.
The program calls for the removal
Of all relief questions to the locali-
ties and private charity, with wage
scales on government relief projects
to be Substantially below private
industry"
Advocating the continuance of the
N.R.A. codes in a nodded form that
will take care of the needs of the
monopolies without any interference
from government officials, the pro-
gram calls for voluntary associa-
ton" of the various groups within
each industry, as we'll as more "hex-
ible" provisions of price fixing and
hour regulations.
A call for the firm establishment
OF open shop conditions all over the
country is sounded in the provision
calling for the guarantee of the
right to refrain from joining any
labor organization.
Company unions are advocated
also in the provision demanding a
collective bargaining through direct
representation chosen without CO.
ercion from any source"
Wages are attacked as being too
high now the plan demanding "low
construction costs necessitates the
removal of artificial restraints in
creasing costs whether of material
or labor" Wages were also attacked
in the provision stating that do
nestle production costs lessen the
ability to compete in foreign trade"
The ruthless slashing Of all gov
eminent relief expenditures was
called for in the next twelve
months.
Emphasizing that the removal of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Newspaper Guild Tells =
Richberg Labor Board
Is Partial to Bosses

In a letter to Donald Richberg.
made public yesterday, the national
officers of the American Newspaper
Guild reaf1rmed the Guilds posi-
ton that no serious consideration
OF the demands of its members could
be expected from the MIRA.
The letter signed by Broun, Jona-
than Eddy, Robert M. Buck, and
Morris Watson, is in reply to Rich
berg's charge that letters sent to
him by the Guild have been insult
ing" The Guild letter said, in part:
I'VE asked for some assurance
that you would desist from actions
prejudicial to our interests as wage
earners. We received from you a
letter completely lodging the issue,
alleging that had you seen fit to
meet them we would have been in
capable Of understanding.
I'VE have no desire to enter into
STOPPING contest with gentleman
who is always tieing his shoe when
there is duty to be done. We are
more concerned with the honest adj
ADMINISTRATION of your office than
with your dignity.
Your failure to answer our uues-
tons, coupled with your hostile re-
ply, makes it plain to everyone what
sort of impartial finding can be
expected from a body directed ex-
clusively by yourself"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Unions Retain Strength,
Defy Government,
Despite Terror

legislation, actually refused to
subscribe. They announced they
would raise a subscription not for
the armed forces but for the or
phans of the miners killed in AS
turiaS.
This open defiance of the govern
ment by the Madrid railway men is
an amazing example of how the
union organizations have main
tanned their strength and their
fighting power despite the Crush
ing" of the revolt.
Methods of Attack
The government has two methods
of conducting its attacks on the
unions. One is direct military and
police action, involving arrest and
murder of union leaders, and the
closing of union headquarters. The
other is starvation.
All the formerly outstanding lead
ing Socialist politicians and union
leaders in Madrid are at this mo-
ment in Jail. Scores Of union Secre-
taries throughout the country have
been shot. All over the country
union branch headquarters have
been forcibly closed.
The Communist Party leaders
in Madrid, better trained in revo-
Iutionary work, are-with one ex-
ceptiOn-stilI at large and carry
ing on intense and immensely sue
cessfuI revolutionary activity
among the Madrid workers.
A significant fact is that the
Socialist unions are now developed
to the point where they are able
to work effectively, despite the
closing of their headquarters and
the condition of partial illegality.
1t is notable that when the po-
lice tried to seize the unions funds,
they found that the Spanish Social
lists had learned from the unhappy
and scandalous example of the Ger
man Social-Democrats, whose funds
fell an easy prey to the Nazis. In
Spain, on the other hand, the funds
had been properly concealed, and
the police found the cupboards bare.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Relief Workers
Made To Scab
lnSunn1nit,N NJ.

SUMMIT, N. j, Dec. 2O.-De-
mands that the city administration
stop forcing relief workers to scab
at the Feifer Slipper Compa
where there is strike, and that the
City Council endorse the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill, were presented to the City
Council and Mayor Shocks Tuesday
night by Joint delegation of the
Summit Local 2177 of the United
Textile Workers Union. A. F. of L.,
and Local % OF the United Shoe
and Leather Workers Union, New
Y ork independent organization
which is conducting the strike.
The strike has been on for more
than four weeks, when the company
moved it's plant from New York in
the hope of running away" from
organized labor and union condi-
tons.
The delegation of strikers headed
by Sam ziebel and Irving Glass
demanded that the city administra-
ton turn over the list of unem-
ployed who are scheduled to work
in the Feifer shop to the union
that the police do not interfere with
the strike activities and that the
city council endorse the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
N. R. A. flinders
Union V o t e
Continued from Page y

radio priest and organizer OF the
new potentially fascist movement,
the National Union for Social Jus
tice, was one of the two nominated.
Some of the workers showed their
contempt for the whole business by
voting for Santa Claus, Babe Ruth
and Herbert Hoover.
The elections were officially boy
cotted by the A. F. of L. lead
ers They bear full responsible
ity for foisting this company scheme
on the workers because they helped
negotiate the infamous Washington
settlement of March Is, under whose
provisions the elections are being
held. The militant Auto Workers
Union, affiliated to the Trade Union
Unity League, has called on all
legitimate trade unions to form a
united front to combat the new
employer government drive t Q
smash genuine labor organization.
To prevent the splitting of the
trade union vote, it has urged all
production workers to vote for the
A. F. of L. and all tool and die
makers for the M. E. s. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Blows of Fascism Weld
Working Class Unity
Against Reaction

The silence Of censorship hangs
over Spain. Louis Sirval, the last
journalist caught trying to get
news of the truth, was immedi-
ately taken to the local barracks
and there murdered by an army
officer.
Here, Smuggled from Madrid, Is
the true picture of what is hap
pening in Spain today.
1t shows a capitalist government
fighting with all the savage wea-
pons of fascism against a working
class front, which not only is un-
broken, but is growing stronger
day by day.
london Daily Worker
MADRID.-"Make concessions te
the Right-wing Socialists now, be.
fore it is too late. The united front
is growing fast. When the full
united front of the working class
parties against us becomes a reality
we shall all be done for"
This is the significant advice be-
ing given today in Madrid to the
Lerroux government by bourgeois
political leaders.
These leaders have realized, and
in the cafes of the capital and the
Hobbies of the parliament building
they make no bones about the fact
that the suppression of the revolt at
the beginning of october has moi
brought the expected triumph Of
fascism."
Nor has it, as was expected, re-
suited in the breaking of the united
front of the Socialists and Commu-
nists.
On the contrary. The united
front workers Alliance) is now
receiving support from the i'm
mensely powerful Anarchist Union
organizations, which formerly
most bitterly opposed the revolu-
tionary policy suggested for the
Workers Alliance by the COmmu-
mist Party.
In SaragosSa. one of the two
main Anarchist strongholds, the
rank and file of the Anarchist
unions has within the past couple
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Waterbury S. P. Represented

kos nCpICSCntCu
WATERBURY, Conn, Dec. 2O.-
Two delegates to Washington were
elected at the Conference for I'm
employment Insurance held at the
Y. M. G. A. last night. "A COM
mittee consisting of Joseph Nygren,
Progressive party leader of Nauga-
tuck, Attorney Perry Gracerstein
and John w. Ring, Socialist leader,
was appointed to contact various
organizations in the city to arrange
for the election of delegates.
Another meeting has been called
for Thursday, Dec. 81, at which
names of delegates will be an
nounced and details of the sendoff
meeting will be arranged. The
sendoff meeting to provide funds
for the trip will be held on Jan. 2.
Organizations represented at the
conference were: the Russian Mu-
tual Aid Society; Association of
Lithuanian Workers; Lithuanian
Sick and Death Benefit Society:
Steel and Metal Workers Union;
Communist Party; Young Commu-
mist League; International Labor
Defense; Order of Moose; Chamber
OF Commerce; international Jewelry
workers Union; New England Order
Of Protection; Society of Argen-
tina; Italian Sick snG Death Bene-
fit Society.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21

some Of the old MIRA. restrictions
does not in any sense mean the
lessening Of monopoly control, the
program calls for continued estab-
lishment Of "fair trade practices
regarding prices and competition
meaning continued protection OF
monopoly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
West New York Y. C. L.
Honors George Calissi

UNION CITY, N. j., Dec. 20.--
An official welcome at banquet
and dance has been arranged by the
Young Communist League here for
George Calissi, who has been re-
leased from jail after serving ITO
days for distributing leaflets adver-
Using National Youth Day meet
ing. The event will be held at the
Workers Center in West New York,
500 Seventh Street at pm. to-
morrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
5000 New Homes
Built i'm Don Basin
Especial 10 the Daily worker

MOSCOW, Dec. 20. (By Wircless)
Nine thousand families of work.
ers and specialists ere h-,l5ed in
the new apartments built in the
Don Basin in the first eleven
months of 1884.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21


BOSTON, Mass, Dec. 20.-Car-
penters Local 157 of Boston and
Painters Local 623 of Chelsea have
added their endorsements to the
coming National Congress for I'm
employment Insurance and elected
delegates. Painters Local II, the
largest in Boston, has likewise en-
dorsed the Congress. The Lynn
Jewish School has elected Official
delegates.
A committee which visited the
State Office of the Socialist Party
were told by A. B. Lewis that while
the Socialist Party Fundamentally
supports the Workers Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance Bill, it
does not sponsor the National Con-
gress. Lewis sent letters to the
Amalgameted Clothing Workers
Union and the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union and other
A. F. of L. unions in which So
cialists are in the leadership, stat
ing their endorsement of the Work
ers' Bill, and informing the unions
to act Independently.
The Maiden sponsoring commit
tee wrung from Congressman
Arthur D. Healey, lip-service and
verbal support to the Workers Bill
Congressman Healey said that he
was lin favor of legislation along
the lines" of the Workers Bill, and
that the Bill would receive his
consideration and attention when
Congress convenes."
| NEWARK, N. j., Dec. 20. - The
Ukranian Toilers Organization Yed-
mist, here endorsed the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill. Each
member pledged to collect twenty
five ballots in the Daily Worker
drive to obtain one million votes
for the Workers Bill.
A conference of all Ukranian or
CARNATIONS here will be held
Thursday, Dec. 81, at 7.30 p. m.
at SO Beacon Street, for the pur-
pose of electing delegates to the
National Congress for Unemploy-
ment Insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21

Students: Get your classmates
to read the Daily Worker, fore
front in the fight for academic
freedom, aainst compulsory mil
itary training, etc. Ask them to
subscribe!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Shoe Workers Elect

ISreciaI 70 the Daily Worker)
HAVERHILL, Mass, Dec. 20
Packers and Tresrs Local Number
Nine of the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Union today
elected an official delegate to the
National Congress for Unemploy-
ment Insurance. The union has a
membership of over 1000.
Great enthusiasm on the part of
the membership greeted the Call
to the Congress and the election
Of the delegates, while other locals
are expected to follow the action
Of the Lasters and the Packers and
Treers, the two largest shoe locals
here in electing official delegates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21

The Finnish Workers Club in
Staten Island, n. Y, held a party
for the Daily Worker and col
Iected S16.30. Send your dollar
bill in to help the Daily" 20 over
the top.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21

Minnesota Conference Meets
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Dec. 20. - A
united front conference held last
night at the Labor Temple, and at
tended by delegates from sixteen
A. F. of L. locals, as we'll as other
unions and organizations, endorsed
the Workers Social Insurance Bill
and the National Congress for I'm
employment and Social Insurance
to be held in Washington, D. c., on
Jan. 5, 6, 7.
In addition to the large A. F. of
l.. delegation, there were delegates
from three Farmer Labor clubs, the
National Farmer Labor Federation
the industrial unions, the Unem-
ployment Councils, the Communist
Party and three fraternal organi-
cations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Buffalo Conference Sunday

BUFFALO. N. Y, Dec. 20. - A
conference sponsored by the Inter
national Wor.-ers Order and the
Sons Of Italy for the purpose of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21

electing delegates to the National
Congress for Unemployment Insur-
ance Will be held here Sunday after
noon at 2:30 o'clock at the Teck
Theatre Building, 100 Main Street,
third floor. The conference is to
include only members of fraternal
orders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21

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in house to house canvass. Bid
deford is textile town.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Unions Override
Green on Congress

(Contimusa from Page y
Evening star., 1934-11-04
BY FRANK SUIDZINSKI.

WARSAW, Poland-Poland Is
spreading its sails to the seven seas
Of the world. Ever watchful of
strengthening its hold on the thin
slice of coast off the Baltic Sea, the
government maritime departments re-
Gently have taken three actions to
build up the country's merchant and
navy fleets.
Several days ago Oar Pomorza, mer-
chant marine training ship which
visited New York in 1881, set its sails
to the winds for q cruise around the
world Carrying 81 students language,
navigation and commerce instructors,
and q full crew, the frigate will drop
anchor for several days in each Of II
ports in Europe, the West Indies. Pan
anna, Hawaii and other island groups
in the Pacific, Japan, China and
South Africa.
This trip. planned for a full year.
is the third and longest undertaken
by the Polish merchant marine school
at Tezew, river port on the Wisla,
close to the Free State of Danzig
border. Its floating unit previously
has made voyages to the United States
and South America. The ship is in
charge of Commandant Konstanty
Maciejewicz.
Glass room discipline even more
strict than at the land school will
be maintained on the cruise. Not
Evening star., 1934-11-04

the craftsman as well as the spirit Of
the true poet.
THE NEW DEMOCRACY. BY Harold
L. Ickes. New York: w. W..
Norton g. Co.
NEITHER Karl Marx nor Adam
I Smith, nor Lenin, nor Mussolini,
nor Hitler should be considered as q
guide in economic and political policy,
for the United States, says Mr.. Ickes,
Secretary Of the Interior. Our prob
lens differ from those of any Of the
European countries and must be
studied and solved by our own lead
ers. It is the object of his book to
explain to the people of this country
the economic and social changes which
are being effected by the Roosevelt
administration, the reasons for those
changes and the methods employed
in their accomplishment. Despite
the silly criticism that is heard in
some quarters that we have broken
away from our old democratic moor.
ings, this Government is turning to
the people and depending upon them
for support to the extent that has
not been true for generations"
Mr.. Ickes lays a foundation in
theory for his exposition Of the con-
crete steps taken in the interest of
the new democracy. He draws q dis
tinction between the praiseworthy in
dividualism which Is the result of
honest self-sufiiciency and has been
the distinguishing characteristic Of the
Evening star., 1934-11-04

average American, and the acquisitive
exploiting individualism which has
been employed by a ruthless minority
to override the rights Of others. The
greatest good Of the greatest number
Is the avowed purpose Of the New
Deal. The standard of living which
! would bring this about requires plan
ming; it does not come spontaneously.
In outlining and defending the meas
ures which have constituted this plan
ming. Mr.. Ickes summarizes the prof.
ects of the Public Works Administra-
ton, through which many jobs have
been provided and new life has been
put into weakened industries. The
activities Of the Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration, the N. r. A., the Home
Owners Loan Corp. the Civilian Con-
servation Corps and the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration are SINH
larly described. The cost Of all these
has been simply the cost Of the de-
preston, he says.
Political opponents and other critics
of the New Deal come in for some
sharp censure from Mr.. Ickes. Zone
would feel" he remarks, lin the light
of the chaos and suffering that has
resulted from the failure of past ad-
ministrations to govern conservatively
and wisely. that the leaders respon-
sible for our economic collapse would
cultivate a chastened spirit and regard
approvingly any attempt to heal the
wounds which they inflicted and left
open." He defends the employment by