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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28

/ living standards and chronic unem-
ployment and part-time work. AS
the industry is run he has a few
months work and then he is thrown
out to starve. This year in the two
months between August Is and Oc-
tober Is, more than 100000 auto
workers were fired. With the con-
tinual introduction of automatic
machinery and the constant inten-
sification of speedup, the worker
has no opportunities for permanent
employment unless he forces the
manufacturers to come to terms.
In 1885 the industry expects to
produce about 100000 more units
than it did last year without in
creasing the number of workers.
This will mean still greater profits
for the manufacturers and still
more misery for the employed
worker. Now as the busiest season
of the industry approaches, it is
necessary to prepare for struggles
that will end the fearful condition
that the worker finds himself in.
On the basis of the united front of
all auto workers and through their
own organized power, they can beat
back the attacks of the manufac-
turers against their standards of liv-
ing, and press forward to yictori-
Gus strike struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
''Do Nothing Policies
Of Car Union Leaders
Cripples Strike Action

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Dec. 81
The militancy and activity of the
striking street car men has been
stifed by the officials on the ground
that the decision of the National
Labor Relations Board must be
made before further action is taken.
This became clear from the state
ment by H. A. Featherstone, presi-
dent of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton Of Street and Electric Railway
Employees, made last Friday. He
said:
I'VE are awaiting the results of
the hearing on our controversy in
Washington by the National Labor
Relations Board. After it is over
well know more about what we'll
do"
This accounts for strike activity
coming to a virtual standstill, and
scabs operating cars with little in
reference.
Following the National Relations
Board finding that the Los Angeles
Railway Company is guilty of vio-
lating section IA of the MIRA,
there has been no change in the
waiting policy of the union officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
US. Workers
Union Wins
Custer Fight

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 81
The determined struggle of N. r.
A. Employees Lodge 81 of the Amer
lean Federation of Government En-
ployeS against Negro discrimination
and for the right to picket, has
smashed the attempt of the National
leadership to GUST the lodge. E.
Claude Babcock, national president
of the A. F. G. E., has withdrawn
all his charges against the lodge.
After Lodge 81 had circulated
printed report exposing and OBJ
jecting to segregation of Negro
union members in separate lodges,
to the overriding of resolution
against Negro discrimination, to
the outlawing of picketing and large
union delegations to present griev-
ances, and to other reactionary poll
cies of the top leadership, Babcock
had charged it with conduct I'M
becoming a labor union" dis
loyalty" and misleading state
ments." He gave notice of inten-
ton to recall the lodges charter.
A number of other lodges of the
A. F. G. E. thereupon rallied to the
defense of Lodge 81 and agrees
sively took up the issues involved.
A sharp fight was developing in the
union when the charges were with
drawn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28

Eight pieces of -cent-a-pound
candy in fly-net sock.
One small tin horn, retail price
5 cents.
Following this formality, the
ladies, having reached their emo
tional height, summarily dismissed
the children and they were herded
back from where they came.
AS the children trooped out with
tears streaming down their cheeks,
the women gathered in mutual adj
miration cliques to congratulate
each other.
1--WE all had the loveliest time!'
gushed Mrs Mae Shumway Enderly
president of the International
Women's Club, which sponsored the
party. every child had the incest
freshest, loveliest orange all for him.
self. We sent all the way up north
for these oranges. All the tots had
all their little hands would hold.
Diamonds sparkled on well-mani-
cured hands. Silk and velvet ruStled
as they swept out into the shop cor
ridors and casually bought ten dol
lar knick-knacks for Christmas
gifts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
Ohio JObIess
Organizations
Make Big Gain
10 Councils Are Active
In Cincinnati-National
Congress Drive Spurred

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 81
Faced with the prospect of further
relief cuts and the spectre of hun
ger and increased restitution
logging them, thousands of work.
ers here are rallying behind the
leadership Of the Unemployment
Councils. Sixteen Council locals are
now functioning in Hamilton
county, and recent surveys show
that thousands of workers are
eager for the opportunity to develop
new Councils.
Each Of the sixteen Councils to-
day average between seventy and
two hundred members, and because
of the militant struggle which has
been waged for the workers relief
demands, the Council influence
numbers in the thousands. An in
creased drive is being made to
register each member. Recently
formed Councils include Cummins-
vile, Elmwood, Lockland, East End,
Lockland West and Walnut Hills.
Delegations Active
Delegations of committees are
daily appointed to demand relief,
and the militancy of the workers
In these delegations is winning re-
lief and bringing about change in
the policy of the relief department
in attempting to buy off individual
workers.
All forces of the Councils are
being used to effect the widest pos
sible representation at the National
Congress for Unemployment In
surance. A local sponsoring COM
mittee has been divided into sub
committees which visit all unions,
churches and fraternal organiza-
tions.
A series Of mass meetings have
been held throughout the county in
support of the National Congress,
and will eliminate in a sendoff
rally in Cincinnati on Friday.
The fifth edition of the Hunger
Fighter, local organ of the Unem-
ployment Councils, contains COM
plete information about the Con-
gress and the Workers Bill.
A detailed plan of work has been
worked OF by the Councils to Or
ganize new locals in Mount Healthy
North College Hill, Steele Subdi-
vision and other localities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
Street PAYERS Elect
Officers AS Delegates
To Insurance Congress

SEATTLE, Wash, Dec. 27.-Sup-
port to the Washington State I'm
employment Insurance Congress to
be held in Olympia on Jan. 81 and
% grows daily.
Two more units of the Common
wealth Builders, North and South
Ballard, have endorsed Initiative
Four, the Washington State Work
ers Unemployment and Social In
surance Bill. The Street PAYERS,
Waterman and Sewer Workers
Union has also endorsed Initiative
Four, and elected its president,
Lawrence Constantine, and it's
secretary, Robert Smith, as dele
gates to the State Congress.
The finance committee has issued
tags to be sold to cover the expenses
of the Congress. All workers or
carnations have been asked to APP
ply for the tag day material at the
State headquarters or at the local
Offices of the Machinists Union,
Labor Temple.
Initiative Four, except for the in
clusion of clause stating that the
act shall be effective until the pas
sage of the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill, is the same as the
Workers Bill. Fifty thousand sig
natures are being collected by work.
ers' groups which will make the
measure mandatory at the opening
Of the State Legislature on Jan. Is.
The State Legislature must place
it on the first order of business.
1t is not compelled to pass it, how
ever, and may vote a substitute
motion. Should the bill not be
passed, 1t then goes on the ballot
at the next general elections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28

ladies had a swell time. Charity,
my dear, is just loads of fun, and
it doesn't cost much either. Espe-
cially the kind that capitalizes upon
the hopes and childish faith of six
and eight-year olds whose fathers
and mothers have been put over
the hurdles.
A few days ago, some of these
Lady Bountifuls staged Christmas
party for some children obligingly
rounded up for the occasion by the
County Welfare. They were herded
into an auditorium in the Ambas-
sador Hotel. But first of all they
had to march past the hotel shops,
where they were whetted to a fever
pitch of excitement by the displays
of expensive toys, candies, nuts and
knick-nacks.
The grand ladies forgot the Santa
Claus, so they just marched the
children across the stage and hand
ed to each of them:
Item: one cardboard reproduction
of Mickey Mouse'S face with rub
Der band around it.
Item: six walnutS, net count.
One ID orange.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28

Farley Opens
For Students
In St. Louis
Delegates from Many
States Discuss School
Problems of U.S.A.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 27-The quiet
gloom which has pervaded the at
mosphere at the Y. NJ. H. A, 724 N.
Union ST., ever since the news of
the smash-up of the car carrying
the California delegates reached the
students already assembled from
the east and middle west for the
fourth national convention Of the
National Student League, mill
tant student organization, was
dispelled when the five west
coast students, bruised, ban
daged, though not seriously
hurt, arrived in st. Louis by
bus, leaving their car to be repaired
at Carthage, Missouri, 28O miles
away.
Celeste Strack, coast N. S. L.
leader and center of the victorious
fight at the University of Cali
fornia for the students right to
academic freedom, is one of the
California quintet. She told the ex-
citing story of the trip to the
students who gathered to greet
them, and confirmed the early
estimate of $125 as the sum neces-
sary to get them back home.
Delegates from New York Uni
versity, City College, Brooklyn
College, Hunter College, and six
New York day and evening high
schools have arrived. New England
students and those from Illinois,
Michigan, Chicago, Syracuse and
Washington, D. c., are here
Some Travelled by freight; some
hitch-hiked. Buses and private
cars were also being used.
The convention business opened
yesterday morning with the main
report for the national committee
being given by Joseph Cohen, ma
tional N. S. L. secretary. Cohen
arrived Monday evening with the
other national committee mem
bers who are leading discussions:
Adam Lapin, high school secretary
Walter Relis, organizational secre-
tary, Millie Futterman, anti-war
work director.
Ex-Howard Student Ends Tour
Maurice Gates, former student at
Howard University, in Washington
ended the first part of his organi-
rational tour through the south for
the N. S. L. last week at Nashville
Tenn, and arrived in st. Louis
three days ago to lead the conven-
ton deliberations on Negro student
problems.
The representation shows a ire
mendous growth in the proportion
OF high school delegates over last
years conclave. This is the first
convention at which both east and
west coast delegates will be present
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
idIsDenied:
Communist
Negro Dies

NEWARK, N. j., Dec. 27-Denied
adequate medical attention by the
local relief administration, Mrs
Geneva Cole, active member of the
Belleville Unit of the Communist
Party, died in her home Of the grippe
on Monday.
Mrs. Coles husband made unsuc-
cessful efforts to get doctor for her
through the relief administration as
her condition grew steadily worse.
A doctor sent by the relief Office
made one visit when Mrs. Cole first
became i'll.
The District Bureau of the Com
munist Party condemned the negli-
gence which caused Mrs. Coles
death as typical of the callous dis
elimination practised by the New
Jersey State Relief Administration
in their treatment of Negro work.
ers.
The funeral was held today from
Beckett's Funeral Parlor, 100 West
Market Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
Newark Plans Bazaar
For Funds to Launch
Center and BOOkshop


NEWARK, N. j., Dec. 27-The
New Jersey district of the Commu-
mist Party will hold three-day
press bazaar here at Krueger's
Auditorium, as Belmont Avenue on
Saturday, Sunday and Monday to
raise funds for the establishment of
workers center, a workers book
shop and a workers school.
Attractive entertainment has been
arranged for each of the three
evenings. A masquerade ball is
planned for Saturday night, lee
ture for Sunday afternoon, a pro-
gram of Soviet entertainment for
Sunday night and a Red New
Years Eve banquet for Monday
night. The admittance for all three
days is rs cents for a combination
ticket. Adn1ittance for the separate
days will be at varying prices.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
Youth Anti-W ar Rally
In Cleveland to Mark
High Point in Drives

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 27.--
John Williamson, District Organizer
of the Communist Party of Ohio,
and Irving Herman, District Or
ganizer of the Young Communist
League, will be the principal speak
ers at the in-Liebknecht-Lux-
emburg Anti-War meeting here
Sunday evening, Jan. 6, at the
Hiram House, corner of 9th Street
and Woodlawn Avenue.
AS huge youth mobilization
against war and fascism, at which
the feminist teachings in the strug-
gle against war will be popularized
this meeting will be the high point
in the District recruiting and
Young Worker campaigns.
There will be a lively program
and the Young Pioneers are busy
preparing an interesting play fol
the occasion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28

the merit clause" in the auto code
to fire and blacklist thousands of
militant workers. Every attempt to
win better conditions and to organ
ize is met with terror and wholesale
firing. With the exception of steel,
there is no other industry SO DOM
inted by company unions into which
the workers are herded with the &C
tive cooperation of government Of
ficials.
1t is against this background that
we must analyze the present rise
in production. For the workers there
are no prospects of more employ
ment or better conditions and high
er wages unless they organize and
strike. 1t is partly because strike
struggles loom in the auto industry
that the manufacturers are speed
ing their schedules. They hope to
repeat their tactics of last year of
fooling the workers with govern
ment boards, and then, after their
schedules are fulfilled, to fire the
workers wholesale.
Organization Needed
There is but one way out for the
auto worker, and that is along the
path of struggle. If he does not
organize and strike, he faces lower
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28

In a letter to the Daily Worker,
one Of the members Of the Social
iSt Party local writes:
Dear Comrades
THE Socialist Party local of
Somerville has endorsed the Ma
tional Congress for Unemployment
and Social Insurance and has unan-
imously voted to send delegate.
Due to lack of funds, we have
been unable to supply our delegate
with full expenses, but he has
agreed to make his own way to New
York City by hitch-hiking, and we
will pay the remainder of his ex-
penseS.
THE Cambridge unit of the Com
mu1ist Party, with whom we have
a local united front, has offered
to help us raise funds to pay the
full fare Of our delegate, although
we did not ask them to do this.
Such actions cannot fail to help
bring the national united front
which our local earnestly desires.
Several of our members are
working in the local sponsoring
committee for Cambridge and vi
cinity. We are glad to be able to
participate in effective action for
federal unemployment insurance"
In addition to representatives
from the Socialist and Communist
Parties, the Cambridge sponsoring
committee also has representatives
from the Teachers Federation of
Cambridge, Scandinavian Workers
Club, Lithuanian International La
Dor Defense, Methodist Church, Lex
1ngton Relief Workers Union,
Friends of Panvor, and the Water
town Building Trades Local.
To date total of four delegates
has been elected as a result of the
work Of the Cambridge sponsoring
committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
Reactionary L e a d er
Of Frisco Union Gets
Job as State Official

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 27.
in recognition of the services Of
the reactionary leaders of the San
Francisco Central Labor Council in
breaking the General Strike last
July, Governor Merriam has ap-
pointed Edward L. Nolan, former
president of the Building Trades
Council here, as state labor COM
missioner.
This is heralded by the trade
union officials as a friendly adj
vance to labor" on the part of the
Governor, who was bitterly de-
nounced in virtually every union
for sending the National Guard into
the strike area.
Nolan Immediately declared. in a
public statement, that he is a firm
believer in arbitration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
Chicago Police
I'm New Drive
OnCOnnunists

CHICAGO, Dec. 27.-Resistance
by workers to attacks on their liv-
ing standards and constitutional
rights always has been considered
crime by the bosses and their
courts and police, and this week
Commissioner of Police James P.
Altman gives open expression to
this reactionary view in an order
placing militant workers, who may
be arrested on any charge what
ever, in special criminal category.
The order follows:
ITO Commanding Officers: Re-
ferring to General Order No. 226.
Complaint is made that some
districts are not complying with
G.. o. No. 226. You will comply with
this order in the future. Whenever
Communist is arrested for any
violation, you will Immediately
notify the Industrial Squad by
(PRIVATE TELEPHONE) DIAL P.
A. K. ATT. In addition, you will in
each instance forward report for
the Industrial Squad through chan
nels giving the names, addresses,
names of arresting officers, circum-
stances of the case, section under
which charged.
"(Sgd) JAMES P. ALTMAN,
Commissioner of Police"
Chicago workers are rallying their
forces to compel Commissioner ALL
man to retract his fascist order,
and will hold United Front Con-
ference on Sunday, Jan. 10, at 10
am, at the Mirror Hall, 1885 N.
Western Avenue. The conference
will endorse the Communist Party
candidates, Karl Lockner for
Mayor; Samuel T. Hammersmarck
for City Treasurer, and Herbert
Newton for City Clerk, and will take
steps to further develop the united
front fight on the fascist attacks
initiated by the United States
Chamber of Commerce and the
Hearst press, against working class
organizations. All organizations OPP
posed to Fascism are urged to send
delegates to the conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28

Vic NOu44O4y db blAt4I OWu EApGIloG
So anxious is Gomez to get rid of
the Communists, however, that a
whole truckload of them who were
unable to supply fare has been sent
to Cucuta, Colombia, at the expense
Of the government. The other po-
htical prisoners, who are considered
less dangerous to the government,
are being permitted to remain in
the country. The Communists were
hastily expelled from the country
without even being permitted to see
their families or friends.
Marked by their long stay in the
Venezuelan dungeons under insult
ferable conditions, the exiled prison.
ers are arriving haggsrd and i'll in
various nearby countries. Many of
them have had to be placed in
hospitals.
The pitiful conditions Of the VIC
tins Of Gomez dungeons are de-
scribed in a report from Colombia
which states that the majority of
the exileS arriving there are stunned
by their contact with the outside
world again. Many Of them had not
seen light for three or four years.
All the prisoners legs are cruelty
marked by the heavy irons they
were compelled to wear. Some had
not bathed or shaved for a period
Of many years.
Welcomed by Entire City
The release of the prisoners
which was forced by the growing
discomfort Of the Venezuelan masses
and the sharpened political situa-
ton within the country, is &C.
casioning widespread Joy among the
mass of Venezuelans. In Caracas,
capital Of Venezuela and location of
La Rotunda, one Of the worst
prisons, the people are collecting
money in the streets to help the
prisoners who have not been able to
pay fare to leave the country and
those who have already been exiled
the majority Of whom are penni-
less. In La Guayra, Venezuela, two
released prisoners were welcomed at
the docks by practically the entire
population of the city.
The priests in Venezuela are
claiming credit for the release of
the prisoners and thus trying to
cover up their vicious role in sup
porting the bloody Gomez dictator
ship and regain the confidence of
the masses in order to head off the
growing rebellion against the regime
of Gomez.
An amnesty was declared by the
Gomez government some eight years
ago but was followed by an intensi-
fled drive against all opposition
groups and new mass arrests. Re-
membering this example, Venezuela
ans are expecting the prisons to be
filled again soon with political
prisoners.
Urge Aid to Victims
Sick and penniless, with no pros
pect of finding work Immediately,
the exiles are dependent on contri-
buttons for support, and are looking
to workers in other countries to
come to their aid.
In the United States, the Interna-
tional Labor Defense is undertake
ing collection Of funds to help the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
Cleveland Will Hold
Bazaar for Red Press

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. IA
red press masquerade ball will be
held here for the benefit of the
Daily Worker, the Morning Freiheit
and the Young Worker in the Pros
pect Auditorium, 1912 Prospect
Avenue, on New Years Eve.
I. o. Ford, candidate for Gov
ernor in the last election, will be
master of ceremonies for the pro-
gram of entertainment which has
been arranged. The entertainment
will include the showing of the
Soviet film, THE End of st. Peters
burg"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
Cleveland Youth Groups
Will Send Delegation
To Insurance ParIev

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 27-The
Cleveland Arrangements Commit
tee, set up at the local youth con-
ference, is pushing plans to send a
large delegation to the American
Youth Congress in Washington, D.
c., Jan. and 5.
The conference was attended by
three delegates and five observers
from the Goodrich Social Settle
ment House; an observer from the
Friendly Inn Settlement; an OBJ
server from the Y. M. G. A. DOR
mitory Council; two delegates
from the Council Educational ALI
ance day Classes; two delegates
from the Young Communist League
and two observers from the Young
Peoples Socialist League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
Hosiery Workers Plan
Strike Against Pay Cut
By Southern Mill Boss

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Dec. AZ.
Workers Of the Richmond Hosiery
Mill at Roseville, members of Local
80. American Federation Of Hosiery
Workers, voted unanimously on
Monday to reject the pay cut an
nounced by the company last Fri
day, and decided to strike.
The 525 workers Of the plant
elected a strike committee and
wrote to the national headquarters
of the union for sanction of the
walkout. The union reports that
workers of other mills are backing
them, and will come out in support
of the strike. These mills are the
Daisy, Soddy, and Arrowhead Mills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28

exiled prisoners. All workers or
CARNATIONS and individuals are
urged to support this drive for
funds. Contributions should be-
sent to the International Labor De-
Tense, Room $40, 80 E. 18th Street,
New York, and marked For the
Venezuelan prisoners"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
Coast Lady BountifuIs
Give Children Tin Horn,
o Nuts, in Charity Orgy
Los Angeles Children Leave Christmas Party in
Tears as Grand Ladies Congratulate Each
Other on Their Humanitarianism

LOS ANGELES, Dec 27.-Thanks to the sweetness
andgh showered upon them by Lady Bountifuls in silks
and vves of Los Angeles children found out there
isn't any Santa Claus
While it was rude dsusionment for the children the