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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
Drive Opened Put Workers Bill in Wash State Assembly
Coast to Coast
Surveys Show
Rising Hunger
Relief Lists Grow While
Aid Appropriations
Are Reduced

NEW YORK-Reports continue
to come in from throughout the
country showing relief cuts in the
face of growing restitution of the
unemployed millions and rising
demand for relief.
Surveys OF industrial areas
printed in yesterdays Daily Worker
showed nearly a quarter of the
urban population on the relief rolls.
Present ease loads" are at the
present time greater than the
peaks reached during last winter,
and from each center. relief admin
istrators painted gloomy pictures of
still greater relief demands for the
coming winter.
Although relief demands were
shown as mounting, and while
food costs continue to soar, having
already reached a 30-month high,
relief appropriations for the COM
ing period call for further slashes
in relief.
The figures given, it should be
remembered, include only those on
the relief lists, and by no means
give picture of the need for relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
Hudson Co.
Union Vote
Is Falsifed
BY A B. MAGIL
(SneciaI TO the Daily Mnrknrl

AptSSiAA " thC OahJ HVAACai
DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 30.-The
Hudson Motor Car Co. yesterday is
sued thru the capitalist press a
fraudulent report on the voting in
the primary elections of its company
union, the Hudson Industrial Asso-
citation, held yesterday. The report
says that 5000 workers took part
in the balloting. There are now
only about 1000 employed in the
three Hudson plants and only en-
ployed workers are permitted to
vote.
About week ago the Chevrolet
plant held similar company union
elections, with the majority of the
workers also laid off.
A Hudson worker, who was elected
representative on the company
union last year, in an interview with
the Daily Worker, today exposed
the fraudulent character of the cleo
tons and the manner in which the
company union operates.
From my experience as a repre-
sentative on the Hudson Industrial
Association can say that this is an
institution organized entirely for
the benefit of the company.
During the past months wages
have been Systematically cut, but
the company union played dead.
The only time Hudson workers got
anything was when they took mat
tiers into their own hands, as they
did at the end of March when. UNI
der the leadership of members of
the Auto Workers Union, depart
ment stoppages in the body plant
won wage increases for about 1000
workers.
The Ford plant is shut down for
this week and may remain closed
next week too. The Ternstedt
plant, a General Motor subsidiary
closed yesterday for an indefinite
period, throwing about 5000 work.
ers, mostly women, out of jobs. The
plant normally employs 1l,000
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31

The workers, under the state in
itiative law, have until Jan. to
collect the required signatures. The
Workers Bill will then go before
the state legislature on Jan. Is.
Should it be defeated by that body,
the Workers Bill will then go on
the ballot at the next general cleo
ton for referendum vote
The Workers Bill, which is be-
ing used as the central slogan in
the election campaign of the Com
munist Party here, and for the en-
actment Of which the unemployed
workers are preparing a statewide
hunger march to the state capitol,
has been drafted the same as the
Federal Workers Unemployment In
Surance Bill, introduced into Con-
gress at the last session under
House Resolution 1898. Added to
the State Workers Bill, however,
is clause stating that the State
Workers Bill shall be in effect I'M
til the enactment Of the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill by
Congress and Senate on national
scale.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
Protests Flood Judge
Who Sent Philadelphia
Foes of Nazis to Jail

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 30.-Pro-
test resolutions are pouring into
the office Of Judge Otto Heiligman
who last week sentenced Ben Gard
ner, Section Organizer Of the Com
munist Party, and five other anti
fascists to total of four years in
Jail for the crime" of picketing
the local consulate of the Nazi
murder regime.
Resolutions have been sent by
branches of the International La
Dor Defense, International Workers
Order, Women's Leagues, John Reed
Clubs, Jewish schools, Unemployed
Councils, independent and T. U. U.
L. unions, and units OF the Com
munist Party and the Young Com
munist League.
The I. L. D., preparing an appeal
from Heiligmans pro-Hitler YER
dict, has arranged a series of open
air meetings throughout the city
to mobilize mass sentiment for the
freedom of the six prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31

neighborhoods from 18th Street to
Fourth Street between Fourth Ave-
nue. and the East River.
Brodsky was especially emphatic
about the literature distributions
and the meetings.
We're going really to get out on
the streets in this campaign" ne
said. I'VE plan on $50 to 200 open
air meetings every night between
Labor Day and election day. A first
printing Of 100000 copies Of the
Congressional and State election
platform is already in circulation
and another printing Of equal size
will be distributed later. Two
special distributions Of the Daily
Worker, Of 100000 each, will also
be made. The other literature will
consist largely of penny and two
cent pamphlets dealing with specific
aspects Of the local and state CAM
paign, exposures Of the LaGuardia
administration, the Communist pro-
posals on relief and social insurance.
etc"
Local mass organizations are TAX
ing the campaign with the utmost
seriousness, according to Brodsky.
More than $50 local committees have
already been formed by local units
Of the International Workers Order,
the Workers International Relief,
the Richmond Home Owners League
and others. These are engaging,
among other tasks, in raising the
$4,000 minimum campaign fund
needed.
Brodsky was also emphatic about
the working class makeup and
background of the candidates and
the thoroughness with which they
represent various sections of the
working class in this city. Eighteen
per cent Of the candidates are Ne
groes, and there are "a women cam
didates and 20 youth representatives
on the slate. Most OF the local slate
can show membership in some trade
union, among them the Interna-
tional Typographical Union, the In
ternational Ladies Garment Union,
the A. F. of L. Teachers Union, the
Table Cutters, International Cap
and Millinery Workers and others.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31

ers. Injunctions, mass arrests, mass
imprisonments and killing of strik-
ers, the strike-breaking activities OF
the state government through its
police force, courts and if necessary
through the National Guard, depor-
tations, lynchings and finally the
N.R.A. in all its phases, beginning
from its continuous drive for higher
prices for living necessities, wage
reductions and imitation and ending
with strike breaking and company
unionism as the initial step towards
fascist dictatorship, all of these
activities are carried through by the
organized state and government
powers in a planned and systematic
manner in an attempt to assist the
ruling class to smash the workers
struggles for better living conditions.
Indeed. the bourgeoisie and their
apologists make every effort to mis-
lead the working class into belieV-
ing that their state and govern
ment are above classes, neutral and
equally just to poor and rich alike.
But this gigantic lie cannot be con-
cealed. Neither can they hide the
fact that all their politics are based
on economics. Hoover's promise of
a chicken in every pot" (of the
rich, of courSe) was primarily aimed
to secure votes and the political
power for the Republican political
boss party. Roosevelt's promise of
a New Deal for the forgotten man"
and his N. R. A. scheme to bring
back the vanished prosperity is an
other example of how these bour-
geoisie politicians understand that
politics and economics are insep-
arabic. The cry of the Greens,
VOLS and Dubinskys to keep out"
politics from the unions meaning
politics in the workers interests, of
course, their philosophy of pure
and simple trade unionism, are the
cunning tactics of the lackeys of
the bourgeoisie to render great
service to the ruling class by weak
ening the fighting forces of the
toiling masses.
All this is clearly understood by
the class-conscious workers and by
the leaders of the revolutionary
trade unions and opposition groups.
Yet it seems that the revolutionary
leaders in the trade unions still suf-
fer somewhat from the dangerous
practices of the social reformists of
iSolating the trade unions from the
political struggles. Some of US,
frankly speaking, did not rid our
selves completely of this opportunist
inheritance, carried unwillingly over
to the revolutionary unions, and the
result is clearly demonstrated in
the insufficient mobilization of the
masses to participate in the po-
litical struggles.
Additional Causes
1t seems to me that one of the
basic reasons for our failure to link
up successfully the economic and
political struggles, and engage the
masses in both, springs from the
lack of understanding of the present
period as the last stage of capital
ism, the epoch OF imperialism and
the underestimation of the tasks of
the working class and of the i'm
mediate dangers confronting the
labor movement in general and the
revolutionary movement in particu-
lar in this epoch Some of the
leading comrades fail to realize that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
More Political Action Urged for Trade Unions

forms of raising the class conscious
ness of the workers through sys-
tematic education. Also this is re-
duced to very narrow groups, done
in a primitive form and not on a
mass scale.
The Shop
In spite of the fact that for a
long time we discussed and recog-
nized the Importance of basing our
unions on the shops, this strategic
field is still neglected. The shop
committees are not the leaders of
the shop and their initiative is not
developed, their leadership not suf-
ficiently encouraged and not as
sisted properly. Our Party nuclei
in the shops either do not function
at all or do not function properly.
Shop papers are not issued regu-
larly or not issued at all Thus
the important campaigns and strug-
giles are not brought into the shops
to the attention of the masses.
The Party sections and section
executives are very weakly linked
up with the revolutionary trade
unions and the opposition groups.
Only in exceptional struggles of the
unions are the sections modified
and brought to the battlefront.
In spite of numerous attempts
made by the Trade Union Unity
Council and the Trade Union Unity
League to build the T.U.U.C. into
genuine center of tine revolutionary
mass organizations, this has so far
not been realized, because of the
lack of understanding by the trade
union leaders of its Importance. The
T.U.U.C. is not as yet the recognized
authoritative leading body of the
masses who follow the class struggle
policy.
In Conclusion
These enumerated causes, and
undoubtedly many others, are re-
sponsible for the insufficient fulfill
ment of our tasks as revolutionary
leaders, particularly as far as the
major political struggles and cam
paigns are concerned. The full frank
realization of the acuteness of the
problem and the immediate crystal
lization and application of the nee
essary measures to strengthen all
our links with the rank and file
leading apparatus will undoubtedly
result in great improvement.
A special commission of trade
union leaders is at present making
a thorough study of the causes OF
the existing situation and will I'M
doubtedly bring to light a number
of very interesting factors which
hinder the development of the rev.
dictionary trade unions and the OPP
position groups. There is no doubt
that the class conscious workers,
non-Party members as we'll as Party
members, will greet the work of this
commission and will assist in every
possible way TO achieve its task
and help the various unions and OPP
position groups to make the neces-
sary tEen for the purpose of living
up to their tasks, and fulfilling their
duties to the toiling masses who are
engaged in heroic battles against
the present criminal system of So
ciety based upon cruel exploitation,
misery and oppression of the vast
millions of toilers by the small
of exploiters and rulers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31

/ the growing forces Of reactions the
rapid development of the fascist
dictatorship in the United States
and the unparalleled preparations
for imperialist war for the repair
titioning Of the world, the only way
out Of the crisis for the bourgeoiSie,
constitute an immediate danger.
The opinion of some that in the
United States there is still "a long
way" to HitleriSm Of the working
class will permit it, is one of the
stumbling blocks in the way of the
fulfillment of our tasks in the reyo-
lutionary unions. 1t proves con-
clusively the dangerous underes-
timation on the part of the COM
RACES.
Another important element is also
the fact that some comrades in
volved in the routine work of the
unions, faced with the daily attacks
and lying propaganda of the class
enemy and its social reformiSt
agents, that the Communists are
not interested in the immediate
economic gains of the workers, but
in demonstrations and revolutions,
become too cautious. Instead of
taking this matter up with the
masses and carrying on a system
attic daily battle against this bour-
geois agitation, they follow the pol
icy of least resistance.
Also this is the direct result of
the underestimation of our duties
and tasks in the present period. In
fact, this undereStimation is re-
sponsible for a great many short
comings in the revolutionary unions
and in the opposition groups, in
GLIDING the lack of sufficient prep
arations also in our economic
battles.
Building the Party
Our recruiting activities are not
planned and systematic. Recruit
ing for the Party is carried through
in casual manner. 1t reduces it.
self to small group of comrades
who carry on from time to time
a recruiting campaign based upon
individual personal contacts. Very
rarely is this basic task of build
ing the Party taken up at the
mass meetings of workers, in spite
of the fact that our revolutionary
trade union leaders know full we'll
that it is impossible to mobilize and
organize the masses for struggle
successfully, impossible to win the
struggles and impossible to main
tain functioning class struggle
unions and opposition groups with
out building up a politicalized, we'll
organized and disciplined function
ing mass fraction.
Fractions
Our fractions and fraction buros
are not nodded into political lead
ers Of the masses. Very rarely are
the political campaigns taken up
with the buros and with the frac-
tons. They are rarely charged
with the tasks of involving the
masses in these struggles. Most of
our fractions are turned into meet
ings for the purpose of carrying out
one task, namely, the economic
struggles and even this 81 not being
done satisfactorily.
Education
l dare say that none of our revo-
lutionary un ions or opposition |
groups made really conscious eff
fort to devise new methods and /
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
20 Per Cent On Denver Rolls

DENVER, Colo, Aug. 30.-Twenty
per cent of the entire population
of the city is on the relief lists, and
the winter peak will probably reach
80 per cent, relief officials here an
nounced yesterday.
At present, about $4,000 families
are on the relief lists, compared
with 1882 in August 1888.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
$4,000 listed In kansas City

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. 3d.
At least 49, 169 persons, constituting
1929 per cent of the entire popu-
lation, are on the city and private
relief lists here at present, and re-
lief officials yesterday predicted a
10 per cent rise this winter.
The figures estimated yesterday
by relief officials here include 1890
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
Nebraska Roll Is 100000

OMAHA, Neb, Aug. 30,-Twenty-
eight thousand families, estimated
by relief officials at 100000 persons,
are on the relief lists in Nebraska,
it was announced yesterday, as COM
pared with 12,706 families during
the month of August, 1888.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
10 Per Cent Enrolled In Seattle

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 30.-With
as, O78 persons on the relief rolls
and about 5000 single persons on
the county relief lists, about 10 per
cent of the entire population Of
Kings County is on relief.
Relief for single persons totals
about Sc month, for families
about $21 a month, in which is in
cluded administrative costs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31

families of "unemployables," sick,
blind, crippled ETC., who were re-
Gently dropped from the city relief
rolls by the order of the federal
relief administration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
Pioneers TO Hold Dance
in Charge for Magazine

CHICAGO, Aug. 30.-An appeal
to Communist Party members to aid
in raising money for the New Pho
neer by assisting in the preparations
for an entertainment and dance. to
take place Sept, Is in the Peoples
Auditorium. has been issued by the
Young Pioneers of Chicago. All
sympathetic workers are being
urged to come to the afafir and to
sell tickets to their friends.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
New York C.P GirdS
For Biggest Effort
hELectiOnCGnlpaign
Concentration Points Chosen for Workers Can.
Enthusiastically Plans $50 Meetings Each
Day, Mass Literature Distribution

NEW YORK-Plans for the current election campaign
scale unprecedented in this city outlined yeser
day by Carl Brodsy the Communist Parys State campaign
manager.
Thousands of open air meetings. two million pieces of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
Organisations Seek
$4,000 Signatures
Under Initiative LGuU
Petition Would Force Legislative Hearing and
State Referendum If Not Passed-Hunger
March To Back Up Demand

SEATTLE Wash, Aug 3O.-Workng class organi-
cations here have initiated drive to obtain $4,000 sig
natures to petition the state legislature which will place
the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill on the first
order of business when the legislature on JAM R
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
Relief Cut In Detroit

DETROIT. Mich, Aug. 3d.
Wayne County. which includes the
city of Detroit, shows a total of
$3.50 families on the relief lists.
The Wayne County Relief Com
mission, using the basis of A per-
sons in each family, estimates a
total of 2O4,772 persons on the re-
lief lists this month.
Despite the layoffs of thousands
in the automobile factories during
the months of May, June, July and
August, a relief cut was handed to
the majority of the workers on re-
lief, and only SGT families were
added to the relief lists in the three
month period from June to August.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
CHICAGO, ILL.
Red Election Rally

Saturday, September LIST, PM.
Peoples Auditorium, 2457 w. Chicago
The fral day for turning all Election
Of Committee for trip Springfield to file petitions
Hear FRANK PRICKETT
Communst fr9u Taylor Springs
defendants
Dancing Excellent Program Admission 15c
Auspices State Election Campaign Committee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
I 18th Anniversary Celebrations
ID of the Communist Party
Detroit, Mich.

Gigantic State Picnic Camp and
Halstead Road, Sunday and Monday Sept.
Sports and dancing. Speakers: Mother BLOOR main
speaker: VIM. Weinsone; Mary Himof; Pace;
Sykes John Rose; Phil Raymond; John Anderson
portation Street Grand River Buses
will leave from there until P M. both days Automobile
Grand River to Halsead Road Northwestern
Road and then left to
Chicago, I'LL.
Celebration Sunday Sept. 9TH P. M at Ashland Au-
ditorium, Ashland Ave, and Van A big
musical program will be presented. Admission Csc
Ne,O England
Grand Outing Camp Nitgedaiget Franklin Mass satur-
day, Sunday and Monday, Sept. 1, 8. Campfire
Banquet and Fun Saturday night Lectures prominent
speakers Rich for the three days Music,
ing games swimming Dram Group Dance Group,
Choruses, Baseball, Movies Round trip 75c.
buses leave from all centers at M. Saturday
A NJ on Sunday. Take U. S. Route 1, of wrent-
ham. Admission
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31

Solicit Subs for the Daily"
Join the Red Builders,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
$4,000 On Relief In Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 30.-In
July, the latest figures available,
95,O98 persons, representing nearly
Is per cent of the population, were
on the relief lists in Milwaukee
County.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31

Earn Expenses Selling the Daily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31

Get Daily Worker Subscribers!
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Fractions
Education

l dare say that none of our revo-
lutionary u n ions or opposition
groups made a really conscious eff
fort to devise new methods and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
Chicago, I'LL.

Celebration on Sunday, Sept 9TH P. M, at Ashland Au
ditorium, Ashland Ave, and Van Buren, Street. A BIZ
musical program will be presented. Admission CSC.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-14
BODY OF WOMAN
FOUND IN BACKYARD
No Signs of Violence Seen Elk.
cept Abrasions on Head
and Knee.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA. May 1.-THE body OF
young woman, identified by an &C
quaintance as that of Mrs. Lola
Barker. SO. formerly of Montgomery
Ala, was found in the unfenced back
yard of a house in a prominent resi-
dental section here last night.
William A. Grubbs, who lives near
the place, told officers he saw two men
drive up and carry bundle about 80
feet from the sidewalk into the lot
They remained about 20 minutes, he
said.
On investigation Grubbs found the
woman's body and notified police The
woman first was identified as "Leola
Jacket" who registered at an uptown
hotel Saturday afternoon.
Late Sunday night Mrs. w. H. Cart
wright. who made the Identification
as Mrs Barker, said the dead woman
mother, Mrs. NJ. L. Britt, recently
moved from Rock Mills. Ala, to
Thomaston. Ga. She said Mrs. Barker
had been in Atlanta several days.
A visiting card found in the
woman's purse bore the telephone
number of a member of the Atlanta
police force who is an uncle of Mrs.
Cartwright.
There was no sign of violence on
the body except for two abrasions, one
on the knee and one on the head.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-14
THE EVENING WASHINGTON, D. MONDAY,
COMMODITY BILL
INCLUDES COTTON
House Agriculture Commit
tee Acts on Exchange
Control Measure.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The House Agriculture Committee
voted today to make the commodity
exchange control bill apply to cotton
as we'll as grain.
The legislation has been placed on
the must" list for enactment before
adjournment.
The measure, by Chairman Jones,
Democrat, of Texas, of the committee,
provides for a board composed of the
Secretaries Of Agriculture and Com
merce and the Attorney General to
make regulations for the exchanges,
including fixing limits on the amounts
of futures holdings trader may have
at any one time.
Jones plans to seek rule giving
the legislation privileged status for
prompt House consideration.
Cotton originally was included but
was left out Of the measure at the
last minute.
Although COTTON people generally
were said by committee members to
want their commodity included. there
has been evidence of opposition, par
ticulaIly on the Senate side.
The committee merely will ask to
insert the word cotton along with
wheat. rye and the other grains al
ready specified in the measure.