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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
Union Finds
Accid ents
Suppressed

DETROIT, Oct 22.-The Michi-
gan Department of Labor and IN
dustry isn't interested in how many
workers lose their lives or get in
iured in the factories of this state.
This is the conclusion to be drawn
from a letter it has sent to the
Auto Workers Union, stating that
it has discontinued it's monthly ac-
cident reports.
The letter came in reply to a
communication sent to the Depart
ment by the A. w. U. and signed
by j. Wilson, national organizer,
following the exposure in the Oc-
tober issue of the Auto Workers
News that the killing in the Ford
Plant on June Is had not been 1e-
corded in the Departments acct
dent statistics for June.
In its reply to the A.W.U signed
by G. A. Tracy, statistician, the La
Dor Department states:
Unfortunately, we have been
compelled to discontinue the
monthly accident reports. We for
merly rented a tabulating machine
together with the Welfare Depart
ment. When they moved cut OF
the building into new quarters we
found we could not pay the full
rent on the machine under our
present appropriation. Since the
work is too voluminous to be
handled in any other manner, we
shall have to discontinue the acct
dent tabulations until other ar
rangements can be made"
In other words, the corrupt Com
stock administration which squan-
ders thousands on high salaries for
the top officials and on the strike
breaking state police, does not think
it important enough to appropriate
the small sum needed to rent a
tabulating machine in order to
keep track of the effects of the man
killing system that exists in the
auto plants.
The Auto Workers Union has
sent sharp letter of protest at the
discontinusnce of the accident
statistics. The letter suggests that
if tax were imposed on the profits
Of the wealthy corporations that are
responsible for the accidents, there
would be more than enough money
TO pay the rental on taoulating
machine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23

EFHebbS appearance suggests GIldt'
he might be a school teacher, a
newspaper reporter or a lawyer, but
he's a miner, with calloused palms
and long practical schooling in the
organization struggles Of the work
ing class.
At the moment, aside from being
Communist candidate, he is re-
cording secretary Of Local 56 Of the
Progressive Miners Union at Pana,
chairman Of the Miners Unity
Committee, editor of the Miners
News and a member Of the District
Executive Committee Of the Inter
national Labor Defense.
Headed Labor Defense
Until Jan Wittenber was released
from jail in Hillsboro, Ill, with the
ten others arrested on criminal syn
dicalism charges, he was acting sec
rotary of the Southern Illinois Of
fee of the international Labor De-
Tense.
In July he headed movement to
defeat forced labor project which
the Illinois Relief Commission
sought to put over on the jobless
Of Southern Illinois At that time
he was acting secretary of the IN
employment Council
Like most working class leaders of
his genuine revolutionary type, he
isn't strong on autobiography. Ask
him about himself and all he can
tel you without digging deep into
his memory is that he was born in
Kinmundy, H., on Oct 2. 1900, that
his father was a native of Nebraska,
his mother a native Of Illinois and
that he has high school education.
He started work in the mines at
Witt when he was Is and continued
in the industry. He was a member
of the United Mine Workers of
America until 1882, when the Pro-
gressive Miners of America was
formed During the strike Of the
new union for recognition, he was
secretary trea surer of the Joint
Strike Committee in Psna and later
e.fnelnber of the pit committee.
The only other comment you can
gel Pruett to make about his per
sonsl record of working class ac-
tivity is:
Il have been very lucky. I've
never been arrested"
Communists on City Council
The.corrupt political machine of
Governor Horner may we'll fear La
Verne Pruett and mis- kind. In Tay-
Tor Springs, not so far from Pana.
FIVE Communists are in the City
Council. The experience of that
community with Communist public
officials as defenders of the every
day interests Of the workers has put
fear into the hearts of the Illinois
ruling class and desire to vote
Communist into the minds Of Illi-
nois workers.
Thousands of them will do 50 by
writing in the names Of the red
candidates despite the fact that the
Communist Party has been ruled off
the ballot by gross legalistic
triekery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
Unemployed
Meet Called
In Illinois
D delegates Will Rally
At Springfield for
Mass Conference

SPRINGFIELD. Ill, Oct. %. -
Calls for a mass conference have
been addressed to all working class
organizations and all trade unions
in Illinois to plan statewide cam
paign for uniform relief to all UNI
employed, relief Jobs at trade union
wages and conditions, unrestricted
right to organize, strike, assemble
and picket, and for the passage of
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill. The conference, to
which each organization has been
urged to bring their entire mem
bership and elect two official dele
gates, will be held at the State Fair
Grounds. Springfield, Monday, Oct.
%, at 10 a. m.
Following the mass meeting and
conference at the fair grounds, the
workers will assemble under their
banners and march to the State
capitol, where delegation will pre-
sent their demands to Governor
Homer Tentatively these de-
mands, as formulated in the call
signed by trade unions mass or
CARNATIONS and unemployed or
CARNATIONS. set forth the follow
ing demands:
% An immediate increase of
at least one-third in the relief
IN each county and the adoption
of a uniform standard budget for
the entire state.
'(2) For the right to organize
recognition Of all grievance COM
mittees at the relief stations.
C3) Initiation of a works pro-
gram with jobs under union con-
ditions and wages at thirty
hour week with guaranteed mini
mum wages not less than sixty
cents an hour.
"a Enactment of the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill by
the State Legislature pending its
enactment by the Federal gov
eminent.
The call to the conference sets
forth the wide variance in relief
in each of the 102 counties in the
The conference is endorsed by
the Illinois Unemployment Coun-
ellis, Macon County Committee OF
the Illinois Workers Alliance, IN
employed Workers Association OF
Aurora and Kane county, Batavia
st. Charles, Elgin, Dundee, Car
pentersvill, Plano, and Joliet; Pro-
gressive Miners of America, Local
Sc; Unemployment Councils of
Cook, Winnebago, Peoria, st. Clair.
Madison, Macoupin, Montgomery,
Lake Boone and 1Ogle Counties:
Painters Local 273 of Chicago, New
World Educational Association:
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League.
Post 129, the International Work
ers Order and District 8 Of the
Communist Party
The arrangements committee has
asked that each official delegate
bring registration fee of fifty
cents to cover conference expenses;
each organization. from whose
members no registration fee is re-
quired, have been asked to make
other contributions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
S. P. Secretary Tells
Workers to Vote C.P.
Ticket in November

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. IS
Speaking at a united front demon
stration of unemployed organizations
in Toledo on Tuesday afternoon,
Jack Taylor, secretary Of the So
cialist Party, called on all workers
to vote Communist on Nov. and
to support the Communist Party
election campaign 80
A tremendous increase in election
campaign activity is taking place in
Cleveland. Neighborhood torchlight
parades are being held in prepara-
ton for a city-wide parade on the
night of Saturday, Nov. 3rd,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
Conference Plans
PushednPitts G

tContjnued from, Page ~
one from the Kenosha Federal Sim
mons Bed local.
Miners locals will be heavily rep
resented at the A. F. of L. Rank and
File Conference. United Mine
Workers locals such as ,Russelton,
Harmarville, Renton and Ellsworth
and Yukon, with some thousands of
members, have elected delegates.
The Rank and File Committee of
the United Mine Workers has also
elected delegates The committee
declared, I'VE are glad to see that
the steel workers, carpenters, brick
layers, tailors and other workers are
also in the fight for rank and file
control of the unions and for a
fighting policy" @
NEW YORK. - Louis Weinstock,
now en- route east from San Fran
cisco, where he addressed the West
Coast Rank and File, Conference of
the A. F. of L., speaks in Chicago
at Peoples Auditorium tonight.
In New York a mass meeting
takes place Thursday night. Oct. IS,
at $50 pm. at Webster Hall, 18th
St., near Third Ave, as a send-ofT
to the New York delegates to the
national conference in Pittsburgh.
At the New York mass meeting
Weinstock will report on the A. F..
of L. convention. The fight for the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill; the fight for rank
and file control Of the unions and
against the no-strike policy of Will
liam Green, will be taken up at all
these meetings.
All New York delegates to the
Pittsburgh conference who have
already been elected are urged to
report at once to the national Of
fee of the A. F. of L. Rank and
File Committee at / Union So,
Room $40. The delegates should
bring into the Office their trans
portation expense money, so that
the committee can arrange the
transportation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23

here. I reported the incident to the
attache of the Radical Squad, sta
toned downstairs" Signed, Charles
A. Siegferth.
Wree there any time bombs in
the black handbags? Well, not ex-
actly. To be perfectly frank, they
were empty. Still, there might
have been something in the Innings.
Nuts, friend Siegferth, friends
Brady and LaGuardia. You're using
our relief money to do your snoop-
ing. The Unemployment Councils
have nothing to hide. Many is the
time they took the trouble to go
straight to City Hall and tell you
exactly what they want. Accurate
information will clear the air. Go
to the National Office of the I'm
employment Councils at 1893 Broad
way, New York, and they will tell
you what their aims are and how
they plan to achieve them. Then
you will know where they stand
we know Wnere you stand. We
know that not only do you employ
stool-pigeons of your own but that
in the scrapbook of the notorious
strike-bresker and employer of gun
men. Peter Bergoff, one of the
choice entries is a letter from the
Department of Street Cleaning,
thanking him for his effec.iv aid.
We have read the confidential in
struction given the Sherman Cor
poration spies, in which they are
told that if they ever become in
volved with police or have to OK
plain their presence in any town.
they are to talk only with the chief
Of police, giving him yuor name
and number When he commune
Gates with us you will be dismissed
at once, and then you can offer
some reasonable explanation to
your fellow workers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
Bankers Praise
New Deal Policies
Continued from Page. y

y |'a'r'. ~ - -
that the New Deal Committee on
Economic Security Is considering a
so-called unemployment insurance
plan in which the government will
merely pay overhead expenses"
rather than make contributions.
Il can't say anything about that"
Law replied.
What do you think Of system
Of unemployment insurance under
which the government and the en-
ployers pay adequate sums to the
unemployed" I'm sorry, but Z
can't speak on that said Law. But
I'll tell you what I'm going to say
in few minutes" He dictated:
THE bankers realize that we're liv-
ing in a world of change and in
order to meet these changes our
banking system needs some revision
and changes. But we do not need
to junk the system we now have.
We need to strengthen the super
structure but retain the foundation.
The bankers are going to make
every possible contribution from
their own ranks to that end"
Clinton B. AFFORD, editor of the
American Banker, of New York
City, today emphasized that OPP
position to government unemploy-
ment insurance is one of the
methods which will be used "to
strengthen the superstructure" of
American capitalism. In speech
to the state bank division meeting,
he attacked government help to
the unemployed as tending to
freeze the depression at the bottom
where it hangs perilously near the
edge of bankruptcy"
Attacks Moratorium Bill
John c. Brown, counsel for the
Montana Bankers Association, at
tackled the Frazier-Lemke bill,
which was passed by the last Con-
gress with the expectation that
Roosevelt would veto 1t as a viola
ton of contract"
This bill grants six year ex-
tension of time, under the bank
ruptcy powers of Congress, to dis
tressed farmers for payment of
their existing debts and mortgages,
and permits them to retain pos
session of their property uncer con-
troll of the courts during the period
of adjournment Roosevelt signed
it under pressure from the farm
belt.
This banking convention, from
all indications, will crown the
Roosevelt Administration efforts
to line up big business and bank
ing in the Democratic election tent
Finance capital, with Presidential
assurances pinned on it's lapel, is
perfectly willing to bless its New
Deal governmental committeeman,
as long as they play the bankers
game-that is, as long as they are
constructive"
This is the electioneering Jim
Farley Roosevelt end to the early
Roosevelt demagogic calls to drive
the money changers out of the
| temple"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23

struggle, scheduled to begin on
Thursday morning.
Following the Saturday mass
meeting at Peerless Oval, the en-
thusiasm of the workers is mount
ing, and 100 per cent walkout
seems assured. The rank and file
group among the dyers, organized
in the Dyers' Club, is calling for q
complete rank and file control in
the situation, and for joint strug-
gle with the silk weavers.
In the meantime the employers
have placed large ads in the local
newspapers charging that the strike
is the work of a small clique of
schemers, and even try to arouse
red scare"
Their latest announcement is that
scabs will be sought through the
U. S. employment service and the
plants will be protected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23

sonal Election platform Of the Communist Party based
1-Agan ROOseyelts attacks living
ards Of the tO against rising resulting
and initiation higher wck-week
and improved living
Against capitalist terror the growing trend toward
against depOrtaiOns oppression foreign
against compulsory arbitration and uiOn against
of troops strikes for the workers right join unions of
choice to strike to picket to demonstrate without restrictions
the maintenance Of all the civil political rights of
s-FOr unemployment social at the expense
the the state Workers Unemployment
Bill III r. 759S).
4FOr the repeal of the Agricultural
relief to the impoverished and drought stricken
out restriction by the government banks exemption
erished taxation; cancellation
farmers; for the Farmers Emergency Relief Bill.
against Jim CrOwism ynchig for equal rights the
Belt; Negro
Bill of Rights
s-FOr the immediate payment Of the veterans
(bOnus).
Against the sales their property
earning less than $4,000 eep graduated and greatly
increased taxation the rich
SAgainst ROOseve preparedness against i'm
pess for the defense the Soviet Union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23

l NOPASo OOhlLllhoSalo VI Jllc " .k0.oEI
Considering the growing develop
ment of the Jewish Autonomous
Province of Biro-Bidjan into a
thriving and happy community in
the light of further economic, So
cial and cultural improvements, the
Council decided on a number of
supplementary privileges which will
be given to the collective farmers
on the Biro-Bidian collectives, be-
side those which are already in
force for the population Of the Far
Eastern Region--exemption Of grain
deliveries for ten years, reduction
of the rate of delivery of meat, po-
tatoes, ETC., etc.
According to these supplementary
privileges collective farms and
farmers of the Jewish Autonomous
Province are fully exempt from the
obligations of any deliveries of meat
and milk for one year from the
time of their settlement. Moreover,
the COW given to each settling fam
| ny may NC paul Oub III lOIIS GCl III
credits to the agricultural bank.
These long term credits will like
wise be afforded to collective farms
in order for them to acquire work
ing cattle.
With a view to increasing the
crop yield it was decided to carry
out a good deal of drainage work in
the Province, also to establish a
special machine tractor station for
rendering virgin soil arabic and for
providing irrigation for dry dis
tricts.
1t is also planned that for 1885
Bro Bidian is to build number
of industrial enterprises, such as
brick fields, knitting and sewing
factories, plywood mills, new print
ing works, ETC., etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
9 MARINE WORKERS ARRESTED

TAMPA, Fla, Oct. 22.-Nine ma
rine workers we're arrested on the
picket line here Tuesday. The ar
rested workers were charged as be-
ing labor agitators."
The International Labor Defense
has been notified by the workers
and steps will be taken for their
defense, according to the report.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
JEWISH PROVINCE
In SOVIET UNION
SHOWS BIG GAINS
Settlers Are To Have New Power Station, Ten
New Schools, Additional Factories and
Ten Year Grain Tax Exemption
Especial to the Daily wOrker)


MOSCOW Oct % (By Wireess) The settlers of Bro
Bidan to have among other things electric sta
ton talking movies hospital ten schools factories of
all Sorts and for the personal Of every family
cordng to decision made yesterday by the Council of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
GOVERNOR TWISTED
LAWS; TRIES TOKEEP
TOHERS OFF BALLOT
Predict That Thousands Will Write Names of
Red Candidates on Ballot, Despite Fact
That Party Has Been Ruled Off

PANA, ILL.,, Oct. 22.-When Governor Horner and his
State Secretary twisted the election laws into fantastic
familiar shapes bar the Communist Party from the ballot
in Illinois, was because they Communist leaders such
asIaVerne Pruett candidate for Congressmanat-large
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
Communist Party Lists
8 Demands in Election

Following the eight Congress
siona Election platform Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23

A Vote for Communist Candi-
dates Is Vote against Company
Unions"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23

The phoosats the Home Relief Bureau the New
York Police immigration work together
dportaons first photostat Joseph Brady special
vgao sends out call of Communist agitators who
relief who " The signed report
whose described tally with the
requirements.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23

Every New DAILY" Reader Adds
Fighter to Our Ranks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23

Vote Communist to Protect Your
Living Standards.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
Haywood Tells
Fight for Boys

Continued from Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23

tContinued from Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
New Textile Strikes
Loom in the South

Continued on Page s.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23

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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-10
REDS
Will DIE FOR
REBEL CAUSE
Leaders Now Sought for
Prosecution as Revolt
is Broken

MADRID. Oct. 10. (UP)-Thc
Spanish government todav was
given free hanG, by parliament
in dealing with tho broken social
ist-communist revolt and sought to
capture rebel leaders who promis-
ed to die for the cause rather than
flee Spain.
Estimates of casualties in the
six days fighting at Barcelona, AS
turias and Madrid indicated that
there were more than $50 dead,
and more than 1900 wounded.
Manual Azana, former premier
who was slated for the presidency
of the communist union of 1berian
republics had the revolt succeeded,
is under arrest and facing court
martial.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-10
PROCLAIM PETER AS
JUGOSLAVIAN RULER
(Continued from page one)

Continued from page one)
yesterday, his medalled tunic
spotted with crimson stains.
One was for the slain monarch.
the other for the beloved states
man, victim of a political mad
man whose miniature machine
gun slew not only the two lead
ers but three others in what was
to have been a triumphal entry
through the southern port of
France.
Six persons fell beneath the
tragic onslaught of Kalemen
Petrus, a Croatian agitator who
had come to Marseilles for the
express purpose of killing Alex
ander.
In addition to Alexander and
Barthou, Alexander Dimitrieje-
witch, marshal of the Jugoslavian
court, a policeman, and an in
nocent woman bystander were
so gravely wounded that they
died within a few hours after
the attack.
The sixth victim was the assas-
sin himself, who was trampled to
death under the heels of an en-
ragged mob. after he had been