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Bob Lowry Developing
Much Along Lines
NPM[ Furr
Bv KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

notice distinct tendency the part OF some OF my
young contemporaries deride of Washngton best
weterweght fighters Bob Lowry who Mr. Fats Cornell was
The Washington times., 1934-12-26

able tn live down the tar feathers with which his neohte
critics have gone the pains of coating him. If their caus
comments do nothing else but spur Bob on 10 even
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u..;11 have haen
The Washington times., 1934-12-26
Gnfmen Head South
For Biloxi Camp Last
Part of February
q, ,,EDAMK (RII(K O'NEIII
By FRANK (BUCK) ON
Times Sports Writer

The Grffmen will be under marching orders some time dur
ing the last week in February with first call to be sounded in
Biloxi ON about March Such the tentative plans OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-15

ton as member of the National
Recovery Review Board. In this
connection wish to point out that
[ alone am responsible for the
preparation and the conclusion of
the special supplementary report
filed with you together with the
first report of the Review Board.
Mr.. Clarence S. DarTow also signed
this supplementary report. How
ever, shall leave to his judicious
explanation his reasons for doing
so since Mr.. Mason, counsel to the
Board, has stated that Mr.. Darrow
was forced" to sign this document.
The Naional Recovery Review
Board was established to ascertain
and report to you whether ANY code,
or codes of fair competition are
designed to promote monopolies, Or
10 eliminate or Cypress small enter
prises." The report of the Review
Board submitted to you clearly indi-
Gated that small business is being
eliminated and oppressed by monop-
ol1stic trade practices written into
the codes. 1t revealed also the dom
nation of code authorities by the
largest producers in each industry
which we investigated.
The publication of our report was
the occasion for an unjustified at
tack by General Johnson, the La
Dor Advisory Board, and other
agents and supporters of monopoly
capital. They assalled us bitterly
for doing the very thing we had
been appointed to do, namely. to
head, investigate and report on the
complaints of small business men.
The purpose of their attack was
obviously to divert public attention
from the clear content of our find
ings which showed the growing en-
couragement of monopolistic COM
binations and practices by the Ma
tional Recovery Administration.
Without my knowledge and with
out my signature, the Recovery Re-
view Board has recently (June 9,
1880 issued a statement hailing the
newly announced N. R. A. price-fix-
ing policy. 1t declares that the N.
r. A. thus acknowledges the truth
of our findings and has provided a
means by which the monopolistic |
practices we revealed and protested
are now to be curbed and abolished"
Maneuver to Hide N.R.A. Monopoly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-15
Farm Workers Hail.
Strike Victory At.
First Convention
Union Af6liates To the
T.U.U.L.; Joins Fight
for Thaelmann

BRIDGETON, N. 1.-THE Agri-
cultural and Cannery Workers In
dustrial Union New Jersey Dis
trict) held its first District Conven-
ton in Bridgeton, N. j., May 10,
attended by So elected delegates
from eight locals of the Union.
This Convention marks historic
stage in the organization and
struggles of militant trade unionism
in South Jersey.
Initiated only seven weeks ago by
the successful strike of 200 farm
workers on Seabrook Farm which
won 100 per cent increase in
wages, the Union has rapidly spread
until it now embraces nine locals
with 1000 dues-paying members
among basket, farm, and cannery
workers in South Jersey.
The Convention adopted a Dis
trict Constitution, and Bylaws
and affiliated with the Trade
Union Unity League. Resolutions
asking for the release of the
ScottsborO Boys, f. ThaeImann,
solidarity with the poor farmers
and a united front resolution to
the A. F. of l.. truck drivers in the
agricultural industry were passed.
Clifford White, militant Negro
Union leader from Seabrook farm
was elected District President;
Phil Lambert, Secretary of the
Vineland Basket Workers and Joe
Ritz, italian leader of the Glass
boro farm workers Local, were
elected as vice presidents. Elinor
Henderson, Union organizer was
elected Secretary Treasurer and two
district organizers, william Ander-
son and Vivian Dahl were
elected. A District Council of eight
Negroes and ID whites, five of thSm
italian workers, was elected.
Donald Henderson, National Or
gani1er Of the Agricultural Workers
for the Trade Union Unity League,
gave the main report. He described
the struggles of the agricultural
workers In other parts Of the coun-
try, especially In California, proved
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-15
Cleveland Steel
Workers To Vote
On Strike Demands
SMWIU Booths Will Be
Open Until Midnight
Saturday, June 10

CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Cleve-
land District OF the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union has
printed 5000 ballots which were
given to the steel workers at the
mill gates on Thursday to canvass
opinions on the demands OF the
union and the strike sentiment in
the city. Voting booths will be set
up at the UlTainian Hall, 1851 Au-
burn Ave, Workers Hall, 2645 West
25th St, and Workers Center, 7O57
Broadway Ave. Other returns will
come in through the mails. Satur-
day midnight will be the deadhne
for the returns of the ballotting and
the results will be announced on
Sunday, June II at two union meet
ings at Sokol Polsk Hall, 7146
Broadway and Tamburro Hall, 34O4
Clark Ave.
The ballots ask the workers to
indicate yes" or mo" on whether
they favor the following seven de-
n1ands:
II hour day, day week.
p $1.00 an hour minimum wage
for common labor, propOrtionate
increases in wages for all trades.
81 Abolition of differentials be-
tween North and South.
Il For Union recognition, and
recognition of Mill and Depart
ment Committees to adjust griev-
ances.
s. For equal rights for Negro
workers.
g. For Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill H.R. 1898.
y If other mills strike, do you
favor strike to win your demands?
The only voting conducted thus
far has been by the Company Union
representatives who do not repre-
sent anybody except themselves and
the opinions of the company.
The voting in Cleveland takes
place Just before the national gath
ering Of the representatives of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union from all parts Of the country
in national conference in Pitts
bTgh, Pa, Sunday, June II.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-15
West Side Workers Demand
Children Playground

NEW YORK-Roused over the
death of six children during the
last three months while playing on
the streets, the workers of Chelsea
elected delegation of Is, includ-
ing parents an children, to see Park
Commissioner Moses and demand
that a playground be built on the
lot of 23rd st. between 18th and
9th AYES. The only playground in
the Chelsea neighborhood is a small
wading pool for the very young
children.
The delegation of Is was elected
at a mass meeting at P.S. II. Fri
day, under the auspices of the Chel-
sea Unity Club, which initiated the
campaign for playground. About so
children have been active along with
parents in collecting thousands of
signatures on petition demanding
this playground.
Commissioner Moses answer to
the workers Through one of his
secretaries) was that he was too
busy to see them.
Meetings are being arranged to
spread the playground issue among
the. residents of Chelsea, to Gull
inmate IN a mass meeting Monday
evening. June 18, at P.S. IL.
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that the New Deal has made things
worse instead of better for workers
in general as well as totally ignor-
ing agricultural workers. and
amidst rounds of applause declared
that the only solution for the work
ers was q class struggle union of
all workers based on mass action.
Two rank and file members of
the A. F. of L. truck drivers Union
attended as fraternaI delegates
and pledged their support to the
A. & c. w. /. U. in all its struggles.
The Convention then passed
resolution asking for a united
front with the rank and file truck
drivers working in the agricultural
industry in common fight
against the bosses. .. :. .,
Left Dahl, State Organizer of the
United Farmers League pledged the
support of the organized small farm
ers of South Jersey to the struggles
of the agricultural workers and
pointed out how united front of
small farmers and workers against
the rich farmers, basket and can
house owners could bring better con-
ditionS for all.
Joe Williams, T. U. U. L. represen-
tative from Philadelphia gave frater-
nal greetings from Unions in the
Philadelphia district and explained
the role of the T. q. U. L. in work
ers struggles throughout the coun-
try.
One of the outstanding features
Of the Convention was the solidarity
between the Negro and whites. For
the first time in the history Of South
Jersey the Agricultural and Cannery
Workers Industrial Union has
brought together negroes and whites
for common struggle against their
eXploiters-has exposed the vicious
nature of jim crowism and segrega =
ton as merely a device of the bosses
to keep the workers separated.
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That this statement of the Re
view Board is merely maneuver by
which it hopes to re-establish itself
in the good graces of the National
Recovery Administration is patent
from careful examination of the
real character of the announced
prtce-fixing policy. For this policy
represents no change in administra-
tive procedure that will in any way
abolish" the monopolistic practices
and their consequences revealed in
our report.
According to Mr.. Johnson's state
ment, the new policy docs not af-
feet codes already approved" Prac-
tically all major industries are now
operating under approved codes. Ac-
cording to Division of Research and
Planning figures, 68 per cent of 325
codes studies contained price fixing
provisions of one kind or another.
The industries still to be codified are
in the main small industrial groups.
Just how, then, does the newly an
nounced policy eliminate monop-
olisitc practices if it does not apply
to approved codes?
The announcement of a new"
price-fixing policy is merely a de-
vice to calm an aroused public real
ization Of the extent of monopolistic
practices. That it does not represent
any change but rather the continual
ton of the old policy is evidenced
by the statement that the Code Au-
thorities of approved codes will
amend" the price-fixing provisions.
In other words, as the supplement-
airy report stated, "monopolistic
combinations are expected to- en-
force against themselves a law to
prevent monopoly"
In view of this and as a result of
my contact with the workings of
the National Recovery Adn1inistra-
ton through membership on the
Recovery Review Board, I have been
forced to the following conclusions:
The trend of the National Re-
covery Administration has been
and continues to be toward the
encouragement and development
of monopoly capitalism In the
United States.
The N, r. A. handed over to trade
associations dominated by the larg-
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est corporations in the various in
dustries, the formulation of codes
of fair competition without repre-
sentation of the consumers or
workers. Wherever A. F. of L.
unions have been representedh as
in the clothing industries, for ex-
ample, the labor leaders have shown
by their acts that their chief con-
Germ is in the interest of big bust
ness. The administration of the
codes has been left to code author
tiles composed primarily of trade
association executives. ough
their dominating position in various
industries, these larger corporations
through inter-company relation
ships, and by control of markets
and raw materials, have been able
to dictate prices, wage scales, trade
practices and other vital matters.
AS Donald r. Richberg, General
Counsel to N. r. A., promised in
his address at the Babson Institute,
September 8, 1888; Trade associa-
tons can police the members of an
industry so as to make sure that
recalcitrant minorities will not en-
gage in unfair competition and de-
Stroy cooperative program Of
stable, profitable operations" for the
largest producers. AS result of
these conditions. small business is
being oppressed to the point of ex-
tinction or is forced to meet the in
tensified competition by further re-
duction in the cost of production
at its most vulnerable point-the
wage scale.
N. 4. A. Cuts Food Consumption
For the broad consuming masses
of the population, this government
of industry by monopolistic combi-
nations has already resulted in
marked increase in prices. This, in
turn, has caused drop in consump-
ton of goods. Contrary to the sea-
sonal trend, grocery chain store
sales for the month of April
dropped 8 per cent from the March
level. According to the wholesale
grocery trade demand "has slumped
since May until sales are below
the levels of early May year ago."
The New York Evening Post (May
%, 1934. commenting editorially
on news item that Total food
tonnages for the first quarter of
this year were below the same
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-15
Socialist Rieve
Defeats Call for
Hosiery Strike
Pushes Resolution Thru
Leaving Negotiations
Up To Board

READING. Pa. June ID. - Afte
two days Of heated controversy,
Emil Rieve. the Socialist. president
of the American Federation Of
Hosiery Workers. succeeded in pass
ing through q resolution, at the last
day of the unions convention here,
which omits all mention Of this
general hosiery strike asked for by
the delegates to win thirty-three
and third per cent wage
Increase and 30-hour week.
The Rieve resolution provides only
for negotiations and leaves the
settlement terms up to the same
officials that have in the past helped
to put over wage reductions. 1t was
passed by a vote of "a to 80.
Rieve was also able to quash a
move to give the manufacturers
notice of so days before Aug. 81.
when the present pact expires, that
the union would ask for wage in
crease and shorter hours.
Manufacturers in this area openly
expressed their relief that Rieve
was able to stop call for a general
strike at the convention.
A question by one delegate yes
terday as to what aid was to be
expected from the A. F. of L. or
the United Textile Workers In case
of a strike proved so embarrassing
to the officials that the answer was
deferred until today,
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Step by step that section has been
transformed into its opposite - q
vehicle for employers to force
through compulsory arbitration and
company unionisnn. The inclusion
of the notorious merit" clause in
the automobile code together with
later Official interpretations of Sec
ton (a) legalized the open shop
Collective bargaining through rep
resentatives Of workers own choos-
ing" was further nullified by N. r.
A. Interpretation of Section 7 (a)
as not precluding company unions
Compulsory arbitration under vari-
Gus forms of labor boards" the
National Labor Board, industrial re-
lations boards, the Automobile
Labor Board, ETC., have deprived
labor Of its only effective weapon
in enforcing collective bargaining
- the strike. In Gallup, N. Mex;
Imperial Valley, CAL; Birmingham
Ala, and Toledo, Ohio, when work
ers struck to enforce collective bar
gaining their civil rights as Amer
lean workers have been violated by
martial law, sweeping injunctions,
arrests, and the most brutal sup
preston. including murder, by en-
ployers' and government forces. No
less than dozen workers have been
killed in recent strikes of longshore-
men. miners, and auto workers.
Thus the n. ]. r. A. clearly
reflects It's class character as an
attempt of the capitalists to find
way out Of the crisis" by pass
ing the burdens onto the shout
ders of the masses of workers and
farmers. The n. r. A. reflects
the inability of so-called "enlight-
ened capitalism" to operate a
planned economy" to improve
the living standards Of the
masses. IT'S DEVELOPMENT
DAY BY DAY REVEALS MORE
CLEARLY A MARKED TREND
TOWARD FASCISM IN THE
UNITED STATES.
The only solution involves a
change in class relationships. Only
a government by the workers and
farmers can plan production, pro-
duce goods for use and not for
profit, eliminate poverty, and raise
the standards of living of the en-
tire population.
tsigned) W. .. THOMPSON.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-15
Birmingham
Workers Held:
New BOnnbings
Tel. Buys Newspaper
Space to Choke the
Pending Strike

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, June IA
-Four bombings were reported Tues
day mite in the strike area, and 2
workers, F. o. Kibbey and G, B.
Hardwick, were arrested today by
police and Tennessee Coal and Iron
Co. guards. No charges have been
made against them as yet.
The Tennessee Coal g. Iron Co.
has bought a half-page in three
local newspapers for a letter signed
by Committee Of Employees Rep
resentatives." This letter attacks
strike sentiment among the workers,
unionism and outside organizers,
and praises the company, claiming
that 95.5 per cent of the workers
have voted for the company union.
Though their jobs were threat
ened, many refused to vote, the
workers reported.
The Republic Steel Co. has also
bought 8 half-page in two news
papers for q resolution, supposedly
from the workers, offering a $500
reward for the arrest and convic-
ton of the alleged bombers. This
ad also praises the company and
claims that the company union gives
collective bargaining, that every
body is satisfied and will not go out
on strike.
Meanwhile, strike sentiment con-
tinues to grow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-15
NRA Moves 10 Fascism, Says Member Leaving Daow Boar
THOMPSON

WASHINGTON.-In a state
ment which even more strongly
denounces the Roosevelt n. r. A.
as an instrument for the advan-
tage of the most powerful Wall
Street mOnopolies, leading to Fas-
cism for the grinding of greater
profits out of the masses by
driving down their living stand
ards, w. o. Thompson, Chicago
attorney and member of the Oar
row N. r. A. Review Board, We'd
nesday handed in his resignation
to President Roosevelt.
Denouncing the latest state
ments of the Board on the pro-
posed change in the N. r. A..
price-fixing policy as "maneu-
yer by which it hopes to establish
itself in the good graces of the
n. X. A." Thompson declared that
he could no longer serve on the
Board when it was so obviously
going back on the findings it
made as a result of many months
of study.
Thompson also flayed the whole
Roosevelt-JOhnson set-up for its
treatment of the findings of the
Review Board, stating that "the
purpose of their attack was OBJ
viously to divert attention from
the clear content Of our findings,
which showed the growing en-
enlargement of nnonopoIistic COM
bfnations and practices by the N.
r. A."
Showing that the N. r. A. has
fattened the profits of the Wall
Street mOnopolies through speed
up, wage-cuts, and higher cost of
living, Thompson stated that only
"A CHANGE IN THE CLASS
RELATIONSHIPS ONLY A
G VERNM ENT BY THE
WORKERS AND FARMERS CAN
PLAN PRODUCTION, PRODUCE
GOODS FOR USE AND NOT
FOR PROFIT, ELIMINATE Pow
ERTY, AND RAISE THE LIV-
ING STANDARDS OF THE EN-
TIRE POPULATION"
All emphasis in the following
full text of Thompson's statement
is by the Daily Worker.
Ny dear Mr. President:
I hand you herewith my resigna-
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period in 1888" stated: In other
words, despite the talk Of expanding
mass purchasing power, despite re-
covery in business, people consumed
less food during the first quarter
of this year than in the first quarter
of last year, the bottom of the de-
preston"
Also as result of high prices and
decreased purchasing power. the
textile industry has been forced to
resort to Is per cent curtailment
of production. In other words, the
amount Of goods that can be bought
by workers with declining real earn
ings has dropped as a result of
price advances created by monop-
olistic practices.
n. r.. A. Increases Speed-Up
Monopoly, with its elimination of
smaller, less profitable plants and
concentration in larger, more eff
cient units has been able to en-
force greater speed-up and stretch
out on the workers who are en-
ployed. A desire for the maximum
production during the shorter work
ing hours of the codes has added to
this speed-up. Although hourly
rates in certain industries have been
raised under the codes, reduction
in hours has meant that weekly
earnings have in no measure kept
pace with the rise in hourly rates.
Nor have weekly earnings increased
anywhere nearly as fast as produc-
ton and prices.
The actual result of the n. K. A.
codes has been merely a contin-
uatiOn Of the stagger system
under which more workers are
attached to the payroll but all
are receiving wholly inadequate
earnings. The minimum wages es-
tablished under the codes have
tended to become the maximum,
thus dragging down the general
average of all wages. Even these
minimum wages have given no re-
lief to Negroes or to many other
categories of lower paid workers.
Presumably as a guarantee
against such results of industrial
combination labor was given in
Section Z ca of the National In
dustrial Recovery Act, the right to
collective bargaining through rep
resentatives of its own choosing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-15
ALL. Painters Elect
Unity Committee for
United Front Action
Carpenters Ignore
Threats and RemOpe
Al Scabs from Jobs

WASHINGTON, June 14,-Car-
penters and joiners of the District
of Columbia, undaunted by the
threat of employers to enforce an
outright open-shop policy, yester-
day went to a church where the
open-shop policy was initiated and
removed all scabs.
American Federation of Labor
officials of the big carpenters and
joiners' union-it has a member
ship of 1,80O-yielded to the press
ure of the rank and file on Monday
and the men placed in charge a
rank and file strike committee Of
so, headed by Joe RIMS, chairman.
The strike has been on since May
1, when the workers demanded
S1.3715 an hour and a 30-hour week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-15
Call to Stop
Ships From
West Coast
Seamen Win in Chicago
Relief Fights; Tugboat
Men Solid on Strike

NEW YORK.-The International
Of Seamen and Harbor Workers,
with headquarters at Copenhagen,
Denmark, announced yesterday in
q cablegram to its American sec
ton, the Marine Workers Industrial
Union, that instructions had been
sent out to sll sections Of the In
ternationsl to stop all ships loaded
by scsb labor.
I'VE have received cable
from the International Long
shoremen's Association In San
Francisco" said the cablegram
received by the NJ. w. I. Q. yes
terday. "At a meeting of the
Executive Committee of the I. S.
H. we again issued instructions
to all sections to stop all ships
loaded by scabs. The 1. S. H.
again declares its full solidarity
with the striking seamen and
longShoremen of the west coast"
The question Of rallying the sea-
men and longshoremen of the North
Atlantic ports to increase their ac-
tivity to support of the west coast
marine strike was the main point
on the sgenda Of the meeting Of the
National Bureau Of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union held yes
terday IN New York.