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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08

of Importance, after four years Of
crisis? Ny local is losing confidence
because nothing has been gained.
Green then asked Louis Weinstock
IL his local sent him.
Weinstock: Yes. am also sec
rotary Of the Rank and File Com
mittee. After the Cincinnati con-
vention, no state bills were in
troduced, despite decision, except in
New York; and that Is for unem-
ployment reserves for 1885. Yet every
A. F. OF L. local I approached en-
dorsed unemployment insurance. We
ask you very definitely to approve
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill. Instruct the locals and
internationals to take steps to win
its enactment. You know the A. F..
Of L. has lost over one million mem
bers due to failure to make provision
for the unemployed. Philadelphia
plumbers pay 81 a month. In 1929
they paid only $3.50. The carpenters
union has dropped from 10000 men,
bers to $4,000.
Mr.. Green: Why didn't the mem
bers change this?
Weinstock: I will come to that.
You well know that our constitutions
are being discarded by force. When
the rank and file asked for referen-
duns to be sent out, we were told.
1--WE are in charge of this organiza-
ton" by the officials. You know
this. You know about racketeering
I personally had gun stuck in my
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Endorse Insurance Bill
at Phoenix Mass Meeting

PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 9. TIL e
United Front Committee Against IN
employment, at a mass meeting held
here Saturday attended by 700, in
kilograms sent to Roosevelt and to
Arizona Senators and Congressman
demanded the continuance Of the G.
w. A. program, and the endorsement
OF the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill.
The United Front Committee has
opened permanent headquarters at
a23 E. Jefferson St., next door to the
G. w. A. Offices.
Records Of the q. s. employment
office in Phoenix show that imme-
diately prior to the establishment and
operation of the C. W. A. program
in Arizona there were nearly IS GOO
unemployed registered for relief work.
The @. w. A. has stated that its
payroll approximate i8,700 workers.
Maricopa County, in which about
cne-third Of the states population
live. has total of $500 c. w. A. jobs
assigned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08

back and told to get the hell out Of
my local meeting. Is racketeering
in unions a secret to the Executive
Council2 You claim to be organiz-
ing the workers. What did you do
in Chester, Pa?
MIR. Green: It's not our fault If
they sent back the charter. We
helped them before when they struck
before they were organized and pre-
pard.
MOsher: In two days every man was
out. 1t is the policy of the A. F. Of
L. leaders that broke the ranks
Weinstock: We can't see why any
workers must have a charter hang
ing on the wall to strike.
Mr.. Green: True. But it reflects
unpreparedness to fight big indus
trialists. They spend millions
A Worker: To fight the workers.
Did you get part of the millions for
signing the auto and coal codes?
Weinstock: We want to state that
the A. F. Of L. leadership jim Grows
Negroes. .... ..- ....
Mr.. Green: (Greatly irkeO: We
will take care Of that matter. It Is
question Of their coming TO us.
You mustn't lecture US.
WeinstOck: The rank and file do
not approve your sitting on the Ma
tional Labor Board. We demand in
structions for immediate withdrawal.
Next to speak was William Lip
sh.tz, of the New York Walters Union.
He said: Il have been a member for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Build Chicago ALL.
Workers Committee
for Job Insurance
Prepare Mass Meeting to
Hear Weinstock on
Workers Bill

CHICAGO, Feb. Foundations
we're laid here at a conference Sun
day for the building Of a Chicago A.
F. of L. Committee for Unemploy-
ment Insurance and Relief, affiliated
with the national body which has
headquarters in New York.
An executive committee of IS was
chosen from among rs delegates who
came from A. F. of L. locals with
:otal memberships of $4,000 workers.
Included in the locals represented
were those Of railroad men, street
railway m n, machinists, boiler
makers, operating engineers, train
dispatchers, cigarmakers, carpenters,
painters, iron workers, silk drivers,
laundry drivers, bricklayers, BARRIERS,
needletrade workers, teachers and
locals of other trades and crafts.
The conference set itself the aim
Of besides carrying on q movement
in the A. F. Of L. for federal unem-
PASJA4iSAo AAAoo1 oAAOCs DO OubA4AlCu III
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill, fighting racketeering and
gangsterisrn In the unions, for union
control by the rank and file against
the A. F. of L. bureaucracy.
A center in which members can
meet is to be established. The Rank
and File Federationist, official or
gan Of the national body, was also
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Continued from Page y

packages of food to more than i,00t
widows of murdered victims of the
Nazis, and to the wives and families
Of prisoners, all of whom are cut of
even from the miserable relief SER
vices.
Resistance Growing Daily
Through this secret network OF
couriers, men and women who con-
stantly risk their safety and their
lives, the committee also obtains con-
slant reports of events in that censor
ship sealed country, he said.
1--WE know from all these sources
that the anti-Fascist work in Ger
many is growing daily, surely" he
declared. "The underground resis-
lance Is very great. Small, compact
groups who keep in touch with each
other only through their captains,
for secrecy, are working heroicaIly
and persistently everywhere.
Those who supported Hitler are
realizing better every day that they
have been fooled. The mass feeling
against Hitler is increasing con-
stantly."
THE whole direction of Hitlerism
is toward war" he went on. ut is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Cincinnati Workers
Force Concessions
from CWA Officials
Relief Workers Union
Organizing Men
On the Job

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. 7--The
Negotiations Committee Of the Relief
Workers Protective Union, endorsed
by the workers from 40 different G.
W. A. projects, backed by the workers,
forced C.W.A. Administrator Stuart
to meet with their entire committee,
and TO hear their demands. The
workers demanded Reinstatement or
immediate cash relief equal to pay
Tor all discharged C.W.A. workers;
against lay-cffs and wage cuts; for a
guaranteed SIS weekly wage, with
union pay TO all skilled workers: and
no discrimination because Of race or
trade union activities.
More than 200 workers, represent
ing 40 different C.W.A. projects held
&, second protest meeting at Turner
Hall here against the dismissal of
over 5000 C.WA. workers, and the
wage cuts given all remaining on
C.W.A. An executive committee Of
80 was elected, and three delegates,
amid such enthusiasm by the work
ers, were elected to represent them
at the National Convention Against
Unemployment.
Sixty-five workers from the C.W.A.
project on Diehl Road, under the
leadership Of the Relief Workers Pro-
tectiye Union, marched to the C.W.A.
offices, and protested against their
being laid off during rainy weather.
The workers forced the administrator
to meet with their committee, and
permit them to make up lost time
and get back wages due.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
mo Desperate Need for CWA--
Men Can Fish," T. Perkins Says

Ben Gold, leader OF the Industrial
Fur Workers, into a Wilmington, Del,
Jail, Miss Perkins revealed that COM
plants concerning such are sent on
to the person complained about.
Silent About Ben Gold
mis- Perkins, has the American
Civil Liberties Union sent you a letter
protesting against Mr.. McGrady's &C
tiyity in putting Ben Gold in Jail,
especially his writing the Judge to
commit Gold?"
(McGrady has not yet answered
the accusation that he wrote the fur
manufacturers not to sign contracts
with the militant fur department OF
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union if they wish to get an
N.RA. code-Ed.
The rule in this department Is
that if any letter comes in COM
planning about the activities Of any
one, it is forwarded to the one COM
planned about" the Secretary replied.
'"Then you'll wait until Mr.. Nc
Grady returns the letter to you?"
this correspondent asked,
ooh no. I won't have to wait. I'll
get 1t some fine day." she smiled
back.
Gee whiz, I wish editors and pub
fishers would do that about COM
plants in our office" reporter re-
marked in leaving the conference.
That's a good way of getting rid
Of them" another interjected.
When asked whether she had read
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill, formulated by the Unem-
ployed Councils and the Communist
Party, and introduced Friday in the
House Of Representatives by Ernest
Lundeen of Minneapolis, MINI. Miss
Perkins replied: tits on my desk
now. haven't read it and prefer not
to comment on It,"
MAY I touch ON its provisions
briefly?" this correspondent inquired.
''No. I don't want to say anything
about it until I've read it,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
ILL., AFL, Independent Trade
Unions at Natl JObLeSS Meet
Many AFL Locals, Not Represented at National
Convention, Endorse Workers Insurance Bill

Centralia, Ill.
Boot and Shoe Union, Local 542.
U.M.W.A. Local 1897, Centralia.
Hod Carriers Local, CentraBas
U.M.W.A. Local 50, Centralia.
Local 4, PIMA, BellyiIle.
Local 8, PIMA, BelIville.
Local 6, PIMA, Nosonis.
Local AZ, FillsbOro.
WOmen's Auxiliaries Of HillsbOro,
Nokomis, Panama, CollinsviIle,
Pana, etc. t13).
Labor Local, A. F. Of L., Bellyille.
BARRIERS Local, Bellville.
Methodist Church, Newport.
Congressional Church, Newport,
Methodist Church, BROOKLYN.
NJ. E. A. Church of Brooklyn.
Odd F9llOws Lodge, Brooklyn.
Local SO, PIMA, Canton.
18th. City Club, Westville.
In addition to these working class
organizations and trade unions send
ing delegates to the convention, g
great number of A. F. Of L. trade
unions have endorsed the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill, but
did not elect delegates to the con-
vention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Underground Resistance to Nazis Grows Constantly.
Says Chairman of International Anti Fascist
Aid Communicable Speak in I3 Cities

well known that Germany and ia
pan have reached a very close I'M
derstanding.
"The Nazis and the Japanese rul-
ing classes both aim at the dismem-
berment of the Soviet Union. Ger
many wants to seize Soviet Ukraine;
Japan to create an Asiatic empire
with China and Eastern Siberia. 1
have learned many details of this in
my visit to the Orient, and through
our international committee in
Paris"
Reports of Torture Victims
Lord Marley told of the most re-
cent work OF his committee In Paris.
It organized commission of six
physicians and six lawyers, who ex-
amined and crosS-examined more
than 100 refugees from German
prison-camps, only five weeks ago.
NO one can form any conception
OF the horrors and brutality to which
every one Of the thousands and thou
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Chicago Teachers
Plan Fight for Pay
To Hold Mass Meeting
in New Campaign

CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 6.--StiI un-
paid after the militant but misguided
demonstrations and paradeS in the
Loop last year, Chicago's school
teachers prepared to launch another
campaign to win their back salaries
and to stop the utter running of the
local school system.
Meeting at the Central Y.M.CA.,
teacher delegates representing nearly
all Of the city's 400 schools planned
to secure Pledges from thousands Of
teachers in support of the new cam
paign. A mass meeting is to be held
Saturday at which an attendance of
$4,000 will be sought. The time and
place for the meeting has not yet
been announced.
John M. Fewkes, Tflden High
School teacher, is in the leadership
Of the movement. He announced that
at the mass meeting Saturday plans
will be discussed ito secure needed
legislation to save the schools" He
stated the campaign will start Feb
ruary 18th.
However, it was uncertain Satur-
day whether the officials of the older
teacher organizations would Join in
the new movement. The Chicago
division Of the Illinois State Teach
ers Association will meet Thursday
to determine whether they viii go
along with the Fewkes campaign.
Rank and file teachers here are
preparing to prevent the side-track-
ing Of the militant teachers actions
into safe channels" for the officials
of school and city,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
N. Y. Legislature
DeplOres'Lynctings

ALBANY, n. Y, Feb. Proof o.
the growing pressure Of the mass
anti-lynching fight on bourgeois gov
ernmental institutions is given In the
rsssage by the New York Assembly
yesterday Of a resolution calling on
the federal government to enc
lynchings.
The resolution was offered IN the
lower House by Assemblynan James
Stephens, reforrist Negro leader. Il
deplores mob violence Throughout
the nation, principally in the South
and West" It condemns lynchings
where they are executions without
due process of law" but is silent on
the increasing number OF legal lynch
ings in the courts and on the per-
sistent attempts Of Alabama courts &c
legally lynch the nine innocent
ScottSboro boys.
The resolution enumerated many
lynchings Of the past few months and
singled out the San Jose, Calf.
double 1ynching as particular ex-
ample, without, however, condemnins
Gov. Rolph for his collaboration and
open defense Of that crime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
National ALL. Officials
Evade Workers
Demands

Is years. Today workers have 70 pay
as high as $500 to officials for Jobs.
Our international president knows Of
it. You know Of it. Ny local de-
mands the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill be fought for.
Mr.. Green: That's what this meet
ing is for, unemployment insurance.
We are trying to see our way 10
drafting a bill What is your remedy.
A Worker: Give us strikes for better
conditions. No talk that blinds,
Then spoke Gino Stein, Of Quarry
mems Local No. 70, Maine. "YoI
know" .e said, there are less rhalt
$4,000 in all stone trades. Yet you
have US support eight different or
CARNATIONS. We have talked unem-
ployment insurance over. The best
paid in our industry makes s70O z
year. We want this Workers IN
employment Insurance BIZ passed.
Peter Paui (from the lower anth-
racite): There are $4,000 members
and only 1900 working part time
Mr.. Green: It's terrible know. I
am a miner myself.
The whole delegation bursts out
laughing
Paul: You know what stripping IS
Three thousand men replaced by $50.
The rest unemployed, starving. We
will close down all stripping.
Mr., Green: We don't blame you.
Paul: You don't give us any en-
couragement. We want the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill. And
we want it nowI
The Executive Council grows more
uncomfortable all the time as other
workers speak.
Mr.. Green: Can you expect US as
reasonable men to approve something
without analytically studying it7 It
isn't constitution as yet.
A Voice: Then you are against It.
Couldn't you call a strike for it?
Mr.. Green: What do you want u
to do?
The Entire Delegation: Mobilize the
rank and file to fight.
Weinstoek: We are familiar with
the legislative program Of the A. F.
Of L. 1t is not q sufficient program
4IFCAA o. gOA w AAOb OO oily llllllE u
force it through.
MIR. Green: You always want us 70
tackle something that cannot be
gotten. Where were you when We
got the anti-injunction bill?
A Voice: What anti-iniunction bill?
Are there no injunctions? There are
injunctions in nearly every strike
now.
Mr.. Green: Why do you blame us?
WeinstOck: The Executive Council
is to blame for lobbying and meet
ing in chambers with the bosses and
the capitalist politicians, and not
modifying the rank and file for mill
tant fight for its needs.
A Delegate: When will we get q
direct answer on the Workers IN
employment In5uraurs Bill? rs
Mr.. Green: Gentlemen, you had
better go now. We are handling the
matter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Only Mass ProtestWiU SAGE ThaeEmann, Says Marley

drunk, decapitates the prisoner
with . hand axe. As q special re-
fincment of horror, the prisoner is
fastened to the block face up, so
that he will see the axe as 1t comes
flashing down to his throat" he
said.
In 20-day tour, Lord Marley will
speak in Is cities, from coast to coast
to raise funds for the work of his
committee and to organize opposition
to the Hitler regime. His schedule
follows:
Schedule Of Tour
New Haven, High School, Feb. 8.
Philadelphia, Locust st. Thea, Feb. 8
Newark, Y. NJ. H. A., Y. w. H. A., High
and Kinney Sts., Feb. 10.
Cleveland, Masonic Temple, Feb. II.
Detroit, Naval Armory, Feb. IL.
San Francisco, San Francisco Opera
House, Feb. IA.
Los Angeles, Feb. IS and is.
Denver, Feb. 18.
Chicago. Feb. 20, Feb. n.
Milwaukee, Feb. al.
Pittsburgh, Feb. %.
New York, Mecca Temple, Feb. Al:
Boston, Repcrtory Theatre, Feb. 20.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
500 in Court Force
Judge to Postpone
Farm Leader Trial

WARSAW, Indiana, Feb. T--Kos-
ciusko County farmers damned the
Circuit Court room here to capacity
at the trial of Alfred Tiala, National
Secretary of the United Farmers
League, Mrs. Viola Tiala, his wife
and Jesse Ham, Syracuse farmer.
The three were arrested January 20,
at the foreclosure sale Of the farm of
Clarence Gearhart, in Kosciusko
County, Over 800 farmers partic-
ipated in the struggle against the
foreclosure.
Circuit Judge Vanderyeer postponed
the trial to February 14th, fearing
the tremendous crowd in the Court
Dom. Again he refused to lower the
bond which is set at 5000 for each.
Attorneys David S. Bentail Of Chi
cago and Albert NJ. Block of Gary
are defending the arrested farmers.
If found guilty, the farm leaders
are liable to one year in jail.
Several days ago when a number
Of other foreclosures were slated,
Frank Bowser, local head of the
American Legion and former federal
deputy district attorney, tried to
mobilize the American Legion to use
against the farmers in the fore
closure sales. However, the mem
bers of the American Legion refused
to be deputized for use against the
farmers.
There is tremendous sympathy for
the farmers struggle in this locality.
This Is the first time that such a
movement of the farmers has been
organized on such scale in Indiana.
While telegraph protests to the
Judge and sheriff should be con-
tinued, the United Farmers League
National Office at 1917 South LOOMS
Street, Chicago, appeals to all farm
ers and workers organizations to
send in money for the Defense Fund
in order to put up a strong fight
for the release of our national Sec
rotary, Alfred Tiala, his wife, Viola.
and Jesse Ham, Indiana organizer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)


WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE des-
perate need for c. w. A. has faded, d"
Secretary Of Labor Frances Parkins
today casually informed correspon-
dents attending her regular weekly
press conference.
Asked whether it was practicable
to close down the G. w. A. and force
millions Of workers now existing on
the pitiab,e G. w. A. salaries into the
ranks of the unemployed, Miss Per-
kins replied: Were now in the first
week of February. It's too early to
say whether it's practicable to stop
G. w. A. work. &. . this idea of tapering
of the G. w. A. has it's own validity
since so many people will go back to
such work as fishing and the summer
occupations. A considerable number
Of those now on the G. w. A. roles will
be returning to normal occupations
and employment. The desperate need
for c. w. A. has faded"
Eyades Question Of Hours
Has General johnson discussed
with you bringing down the code
authorities to shorten hours?" One of
the conservative correspondents asked
Perkins.
very briefly" came the answer.
eve can't understand it because
he's Just heightened hours in the
automobile and shipbuilding indus
tries" her questioner complained.
"Of course, you understand, that
due to the kind of skill involved 1t
may be necessary to lengthen the
hours to get the labor needed"
"But there's tremendous unemploy-
ment in the automobile and ship
building industries"
I'VE just discussed it briefly, not
having all the data before me"
In replying to query about AS
sistant Secretary Of Labor McGrady's
action in using his influence to jam
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Fire 200 Los Angeles
Relief Investigators

LOS ANGELES.-Four hundred in
vestigators Of the County Welfare
Department viii be dismissed in the
near future. Two hundred have
been fired already.
Earl E. Jensen, County superin-
tendent Of Charities, got rid Of them
in the name of economy and the C.
W. A., claiming that the c. W. A..
had reduced the county wolS rolls :
10000. What these unemployed
workers are to do when this G. W. A.
ends, Jensen did not say
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Th G
City Council voted that every city
employe is to take q two weeks
vacation" without pay between now
and July, due to lack Of funds"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
AL Rank and File Convention Delegates
Demand Green's Stand on Workers Bill
Speak in Name of 1900
AFL Locals Endorsing
Workers Insurance

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. o.
Members Of the A. F. Of L. at the
National Convention Against I'm
employment, held in this city,
formed delegation Of 40 10 pre-
sent their demands for the passage
of the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill to q meeting Of the
A. +. of L. executive council which
was in session. On Feb. 5th, the
delegation walked Into the sumptu-
Gus offices OF the A. F. of L. viii
liam Green was presiding over a
meeting Of the executive council.
The delegation for the National
Convention Against Unemployment
represented 1,200 locals, three state
declarations, and scores Of central
labor bodies which had endorsed
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill.
For the first time in history, Mr.,
Green permitted q rank and file
delegation to present its demands.
Mr.. Green comes out. He is YER
smooth and polite: Gentlemen" h
says, THE Executive Committee vii
give you a hearing right away" tn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Deaf Form C.P. Unit of
10 in Los Angeles; to
Issue Monthly Paper

Los ANGELES, Cal-The first deaf
workers unit Of the Communist Party
was formed recently. 1t now reports a
membership of ten.
In Sept, 1888, an active, deaf Com
munist Party member organized in
st. Louis, Mo, the first unit in the
United States which was composed
entirely Of deaf members. The last
report stated that it had 16 members
who participated in all Party activi-
ties.
Encouraged by this, a deaf COM
rade organized the unit here, which is
mobilizing deaf workers for better
work and relief conditions and will
soon issue the first copy of Its
monthly bulletin; The Pacific Coast
Deaf Worker,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
Laundry Workers Get
Unity in Strike Meet

NEW YORK. A meeting Of
the Laundry Workers International
Union Local $50 members, who heard
Sam Berland, general secretary OF
the Industrial Union, speak on the
question of unity Of the rank and
file In the strike struggle, ended In
a complete victory for the workers
when committee Of ten was elected
from the floor to meet a COMMITTEES
from the Industrial Union. The In
ternationsl officials called the police
to break up the meeting but the
workers forced their Withdrawal BIZ
a militant protest.