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I Suggest These

TOR others recommendation few
believe might introduction to the whole field
Communist Manifesto" BY Marx
Frederick Enges the of scientific
intellectual fathers 1t fresh though written TO-
day. opening Ieim "a spectre haunting the rulers
Europe Communism the grand crashing chord Of
those historic words that have been the signal for half
tuy struggle workers Of the world unite have nothing to lose
your chains you a world to ganl"
published pamphlet and
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TO workers whom think would enighten II Is master
piece written with prOetarian art passion
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zINDoREsT GUESTS AID anAn.Y,

NEW YORK.-To help the Daily
Worker install its new press, guests
at zindorest Park took up a colec-
ton recently. Twelve dollars YVES
raised and forwarded to the Daily .
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sonse Books Cost Money

BOOKS altogether expensive country
buy they badly every ought
make sacrifice buy solid year.
few Of the right books like Capital
period Of that the grand finally
Of the opportunists demagogues poison
books that make Introduction
John strachey is ytuoso of sparkling English
Communism In the bourgeois world fiction
patriotic businessmen prostitutes they
for amusement, the sport
But prolearan fiction
Of Communism by other
scientists Its material the the daily
and events struggling this capitalist
emcons its truths demonstrated
One OF the best introducion
novel by Vantn Kataev published
Time Forward Faar publishers
This novel is simply the story of construction
the new enormous industrial projects the
workers. and the fire. the enthusiasm
at their job because is socialist
American worker who knows what working conditions
This too IS OF the
breathe youthful confidence
beginning TO reflect that victorious atmosphere that peryades Soviet
one OF Inc
Pele the Conqueror 1t written
true and beautiful that reflects workingcass anywhere
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Hastilg Yours

THESE are Just few suggestions the
would write them in hurried letter young
ASKING ior guidance
uperay naming all the hundreds
munm know have been inadequate yet that there
are TOO lew books pamphlets written
American worker in style that viii can be readily
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In a second article to be pub
lished tomorrow the author Of the
above viii discuss specific songs y
the international Collection of
Revolutionary Songsg-Ed. Noe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Labor Rouses the Waterfront
N-The Centralized Shipping Bureau

| sion of the working class-at the
ownership by the few of the jobs
Of the millions-by uniting them in
collective control. AS the control
Of relief by seamen gave a concrete
demonstration Of the benefits the
worker and his allies will derive
from proletarian dictatorship in the
political field, control Of employ
nent by the marine workers fore
casts the results that will flow from
proletarian ordering of economic
affairs The political attack upon
relief by the government in re-
spouse to complaints by economic
powers against the employment
agency serves to show. with con-
cretenesS the American worker
rarely has experienced the econom-
ic base of the political structure.
Baltimore seamen understand this
thousands OF them have learned
this in their struggle. Consider
Alexander, the slow-sooken, sturdy
Chairman Of the Centralized Ship
ping Bureau committee:
Il been a seaman fourteen years.
In the Navy two years. For four
wears l was a member of the 1. S.
u, for year and half an l. w.
w. I was in the l. W. w. when
I shipped here from New Orleans
on the U. S. Tank Corporations
Dora last January. heard about
the strikes and activities going on.
and thought the I. w. w must
have suddenly come back to life.
I asked fellow on the street.
Where's the hall? I'd like to see
what this activity's about? Where's
the I. w. w. hall?' He pulled out
a Marine Workers INDY strial Union
book and said, Say. you better tear
up that book Of yours and get one
like mine I came on down and
got active"
Within few weeks he joined the
M. w. I. U. And then the Com
munist Party. I asked him why.
Here's the way it is" he said.
After you see who the government
is afte" vcu see that the govern
ment and the shipowners is the
same. the only thing YOU can do is
keep fighting them. But. Of course.
YOU know, the Centralized Shipping
Bureau is appealing to all workers,
and everybody gets his lob when
his number comes up, whether or
not he knows that he can't depend
on the government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
H.R. 1898 a Control
'S0,1e IN the Rhode
Island Elections

PROVIDENCE. F. T.. Nav II. -
The Right to Live Club hare is con-
ductine an extensive "Vrite-in"
canraign for the endorsement Of
the Workers IJnemnlovment In
surance Bill III. r. 1899. in the
special elections to be held through
cut the state en- May 10.
In this CAMPAIGN workers are
urged TO get stickers from the
Rieht to Live Club, 1755 West
minister St, circulate them among
ell voters. and urge them 70 at
tach to their ballots. The stickers
read: 81 endorse the Workers
Unemployment and Social In
surance Act Oh. r. 1888. and ask
the Rhode Island Legislature to
pass resolution instructing Sem
ators and Congressmen to work
for its passage" If when voting,
workers have not this sticker, they
are urged to write 81 endorse H.
r. 1888" on the ballet.
To meet the scare" being raised
by local politicians about spoiling
ballots. the RIGHT to Live GLIB in
statement declared: This is ycur
ballot. The election laws permit
you to write in or mark your ballot
as YOU please. To safeguard the
count. the Right to Live Club will
have committee at the State
House to watch the counting.
Every Office holder in the state
will be forced to state publicly his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Glove Strikers Are
Bitter at Union
SeII-Out Attempt
AFL Officials Try To
End Strike With
Promises

GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y, Nav IL
The ranks of the 5000 striking
glove workers remained solid in the
fourth week of the strike despite
the attempts at betrayal by the
heads of the A. F, of L.-controlled
glove workers union, the MIRA.
Board and the employers.
The union officials have ruled that
the men should accept 10 per cent
raise instead Of the q per cent raise
demanded and that this raise should
be deferred until manufacturers
throughout the country consented
to the raise. The Labor Board CO.
operated with them in this maneu-
YER The men refused to accept
this agreement.
The manufacturers have issued a
statement declaring that commit
tee of union officials and a COM
mittee Of manufacturers will pre-
sent this agreement ito their re-
spective memberships in the effort
to force the men back to work.
There is deep discomfort among
the workers over this attempted
betrayal. There is talk among the
workers for an independent union
and bread, elected strike commit
tee to handle the strike, rather than
the few union heads who are doing
all the negotiating" The workers
are determined to spread the strike
to other shops in Mayfield and else
where in the glove centers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
AS Congressman Must
Sign Round Robin
on HR 1898

NEW YORK. - Increased mass
/ pressure has forced Congressman
F Drummer Of the 2nd New York Con-
I gressional District to sign the round
robin petition to bring the Workers
/ Unemployment Insurance Bill II.
/ R. 1897 out Of the House Commit
( tee on Labor and onto the floor Of
I Congress for vote. With the signing
by Drummer, IT Congressman have
thus far signed the petition. To
bring the Bill up for vote. As sigma
lures are necessary on the petition.
Signing the petition, however, in
no way guarantees that the con-
gressmen will actively support the
bill. Congressman Peavey, who
signed the petition, in a letter to
A. Olmstsad, secretary of the IN
employment Councils Of Superior,
Wis, stated: Il will be frank to say
that I am inclined to favor the
Lewis bill CWagner-LeWis fake I'M
employment bill-Ed) over the one
introduced by Mr. Lundeen. Unless
we can get a considerable number Of
signatures in the next two or three
weeks, we will not be able to get the
bill workers Bib up in the House
at this session"
The National Unemployment
Councils urge immediate steps by
all workers groups to force action
during this session Of Congress.
Accordingly, during the week Of
June 4 to 10, demonstrat tons will be
held near the homes Of every Con-
gresham, demanding that he sign
the round robin petition, and in
form the National Unemployment
Councils of his action.
AS part of the campaign, the
Councils are issuing one million Post
Cards for circulation in all work
ers' organizations and to be mailed
to Congressman demanding that
they sign the round robin motion at
once.
AS part of the same campaign, or
at an earlier date, demonstrations
and mass pressure must be brought
to bear upon City Councils, mayors
and individual councilmen to en-
dorse the Bill In the meantime,
the campaign to secure endorse
ments by unions, mass and fraternal
organizations, the National Unem-
ployment Councils urge, must go
forward.
In addition to post cards, the
National Office Of the Unemploy-
ment Councils, is preparing color
posters to be placed in homes and
in the windows of stores and bust
ness houses with the aim Of re-
placing N. R. A. emblems with H. r.
1893 posters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12

numerous and militant, but more
consciously directed toward winning
genuine unemployment insurance
This in turn has forced scores Of
city and county governmental bod
les to endorse our Bill and memoir
ialize Congress for its enactment.
We must not allow these worried
Congressman to evade the issue by
platonic expressions of sympathy
with the principle" Of unemploy-
ment insurance. We must make
clear that they cannot discharge
their obligation to enact genuine
social insurance by vote for the
fake Wsgner-Lewis Bill.
Right at this moment we must
press the demand that every Con-
gresham shall sign the motion to
bring the Workers Bill (H.R. 1888
out of the House Committee on
Labor and onto the floor of Con-
gress for vote.
This is the first test Of the sin
cerity of those Congressman who
claim that they favor unemploy-
ment insurance.
Two hundred thousand postcard
messages have been sent out by as
many workers in all parts of the
United States to their Congressman.
This and the various other activities
already forced about seventeen Con-
gressmen to sign the motion to take
the Bill out of Committee. But this
is still far from the 145 signatures
that are required. The seventeen
Congressman who signed the motion
are no more friendly to the workers
than those who have not yet signed.
They simply we're subject to more
pressure. 1t is obvious from this
that our task is to increase the
pressure upon those who have not
yet signed.
Campaign of June 4 to 10
The National Unemployment
Council is developing an intensive
campaign to force favorable action
on our Bill before Congress ad-
journs. Our plans call for: Cd the
flooding of Congressman with new
post card which specifically calls
upon them to sign the motion that
will bring our Bill out OF Commit
tee; az resolutions by unions, lodges
ETC., specifically directed to the given
Congressman pressing the same de-
mand; 90 open air meetings in the
neighborhoods where the position of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12

weaker. Since then, for the first
time, ships crews, and unorganized
ones at that, have protected the
Centralized Shipping Bureau by
threatening strikes. They put a
couple of seamen on the Eastern
Temple shipped off the dock. The
crew informed the mate he could
throw these guys off and get fellows
from us, or they'd strike. The
mate telephoned us to replace them.
Last week, they wouldn't Let cur
Centralized Shipping Bureau dele
gate go aboard the S. S. Dixians.
The crew threatened to strike. The
skipper welcomed our delegate"
OF all the events in this historic
struggle on the Baltimore water
front, the development OF the Cen
tralized Shipping Bureau casts per-
haps the longest shadow. It drives
at the heart Of capitalist oppres-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12

mass demand for unemployment in
surance.
Demand H. r. 1898
We workers must let the members
of Congress know that they can't get
away with it. We must tell them
in no uncertain terms that yes,
we are aware Of the fact that the
record of Congress contains nothing
to appeal particularly to wage
earners land unemployed. Yes, the
Unemployment Insurance Bill is the
answer that Congress must make to
the impoverished masses. But, pre-
cisely for that reason the Wagner
Lewis Bill is not acceptable. We
want action that will take the bur
den off the backs of the workers. A
bill that meets the approval of the
Chamber of Commerce because il
will tighten the burden of the en-
ployers, cannot meet with the ap-
proval Of the workers, who will thus
be compelled to carry a greater
burden"
II is clear that our fight for the
Workers Bill CHR. 1899 has made
an impression. congressman who
are trying to secure reelection are
feeling the effects of the thousands
Of endorsements by unions, fraternal
organizations, veterans and farmers
groups. The post cards and mes
sages with which they have been
flooded; the fact that demonstrs-
tons have not only become more
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Workers! Force All congressman To Pass Bill HR 1898!
Philadelphia Seamen
Organize in Struggle
For Relief Demands

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May Ii
Fearing a march of the unemployed
seamen on Washington, the federal
and state relief officAls will meet
here on the question of unemploy-
ment. The jobless seamen have thus
far obtained 173 signatures Of sea-
men on the beach-seamen living in
the Seamen's Church Institute, Gal
lalee Mission, etc. The unemployed
are organizing into the Waterfront
Unemployment Council, demanding
adequate food, clothing and shelter,
and workers control of relief. Small
business men on the waterfront are
also offering their support to the
seamen's demands.
The unemployed seamen call upon
all seamen, employed and unem-
ployed, to support their demands by
sending resolutions to H. NJ. Stuart,
1888 Vine St.. Philadelphia, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12

threat of the federal governments
establishing its own Centralized
Shipping Bureaus" to break up the
seamen's and to act as govern
ment shipping sharks. Not only
for the purposes of cracking this,
the most powerful weapon ever
forged by labor in the marine in
dustry, but also to concentrate the
workers so vital in war in centers
and under conditions where they
can be gotten at swiftly and in
exorably, and sent off to drown or
be shot to pieces in a battle for
shipowners' profit
But they'll have to step pretty
lively to get anywhere Harry
Alexander, Chairman of the United
Front Committee, chuckled. Since
they cut off seamen's control of re-
lief, the Centralized Shipping Bu-
reau has gotten stronger instead of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Illinois Steel Men
Get Call To Anti
Go. Union COnfab
For First Time Since
10 Militant Speaker
Heard Inside Mill
nailv Worker Midwest Bureau

DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau
CHICAGO, May 11.-For the first
time since 1919 a representative of
the Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union spoke to a meeting
inside the Illinois Steel Co. plant
during working hours on May It'll.
At the special invitation of the
workers the speakers for the S. M.
W. I. u brought out the program
of the union and the demand for
twenty-five per cent increase in
wages.
The meeting, called by the COM
pany union in the Blast Furnace
Department, was attended by many
foremen and superintendent. Com
pany union representatives spoke
about their activities of the last
year. claiming they had not won
much for the workers because they
we're green" at the job, and max
ing grand promises for the future.
LET Him Talk"
The representative of the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial IN
ion, who had been invited by the
workers, took the floor and exposed
the rottenness of the A. F. of L..
leaders, then ripped into the COM
pany union, and introduced the call
to the anti-company union united
front conference called for June
3. Workers present applauded Wig
orously.
Company union officials tried to
put him off the floor, The work
erS answered with shouts of "let
him talk 1--WE want to hear him"
Then the company union repre-
sentatives made maneuver, by
asking all those who wanted to
hear the speaker to raise their
hands. Since the foremen and SUI
perintendents were present, none
dared to raise their hands and ex-
pose themselves to the bosses.
Squad Car Appears
Following this, company men
made talks, trying to make the
workers believe that they we're
radical and would fight for the
workers. They even went so far,
when the question was asked, to
claim that they would call a strike
if demands we're refused.
In an effort to prove to the work
erS that at company union meetings
they were free to present demands,
company men called on worker
who had a grievance against a
foreman to state it to the meeting,
he was afraid to do So knowing
that he would be fired if he did.
At the end of the meeting calls
we're distributed for the conference
June 3 and workers seized them
eagerly. When the spaker of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union left the plant, squad car
was waiting at the gate. Only the
fact that a shift was leaving the
plant at that time permitted the
speaker to escape unnoticed by the
police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Long Hours Are
Disregarded by
U.T.W. Officials
Workers Organize OPP
position in Reac-
tionary Union

NEW BEDFORD, Mass.-At the
last meeting of the Textile Council
UNITED Textile Workers. it was
brought out by some of the mem
bers that the loom fixers and
changer-overs in the Butler Mill are
working II hours day and SIS hours
week, with the knowledge and
approval of the Textile Council and
Of Batty, secretary of the loom fix
ers union. This is being done at
a time when there are many loom
f1xers out of work and the U.T.W
is supposed to be carrying on q
campaign for shorter hours for all
textile workers.
The fight in the Textile Council
against Batty and other misleaders
is only reflection of the deep
undercurrent Of discomfort with the
U.TW. leadership among the work
ers in the mills and the U.T.W
unions.
Right at this time the U.T.W. has
entered into an organization cam
paign to organize New Bedford
100 per cent. There is so cent
commission for the U.T.A. leaders
for every new member brought in.
In this drive the U.T.W. has full
cooperation of the mill owners. In
many of the mills those workers who
are slow in signing up into the
U.T.W. are approached by the super
intendent and told that unless they
do so their job may be lost.
The National Textile Workers
Union is working to organize this
oppositionist current within the U.
T. w. into an organized opposition
based on the program of struggle
for immediate demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Socialist Leaders Take
Steps to Split Youths
United Front

CHICAGO, May II, - In
spite Of the attempts of lead
ers of the Progressive Min
ers of America to prevent the
sending of delegates to the
Illinois State Youth Confer
ence Against War and Fas-
cism, and the disruptive tactics of
Chicago Socialist and liberal" lead
ers in calling a separate conference
to split the youth Of Illinois, Gre
dentials continue to pour into the
Conference office.
Keck and Spizak, leaders of the
P, M. A., called a special meeting of
Local l at Gillespie. At this meet
ing they told the members that, re-
CARELESS of the previous decision of
the membership to send two dele
gates to Chicago, no delegates would
be sent.
Following the issuance of the Call
to the State Conference, a confer
ence was called by assorted paci-
fists and socialists to be held in the
Morrison Hotel in Chicago, May II
and 18th The reactionary char
acter of this conference is indi-
Gated by the Call which speaks
about defending our democratic
institutions, our tolerance Of minori-
ties and states that one of the
major dangers to peace today is
Communism. The call defends the
world court and League of Nations
as bulwarks against imperialist war.
Among the speakers listed at this
splitting conference are Norman
Thomas, and other Socialist leaders.
However, masses of youth are
modifying in support of the State
Youth Conference. Latest Creden-
tials show that thirty-five delegates
from the Illinois coal fields will at
tend. Nine have been elected from
East st. Louis and neighboring
towns. Such groups as the Boys
Brotherhood Republic, clubs from
Gross Settlement House and the
Jewish Peoples Institute will be
represented. Many school and
neighborhood groups are electing
delegates.
At the Conference, besides the
general discussion, three commissions
will be set up to consider special
problems. One will deal with build
Ing anti-war groups in shops and
unions. The second will consider
work in schools and colleges, and
the third work among women and
girls.
Bob Minor will represent the
Communist Party at the Conference.
Preparations for National Youth
Day are going ahead rapidly Tens
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
By MARGUERITE YOUNG

10y n OCANN
seI SHANGHAIED sailors
L before you were born, and
I'll shanghai sailors after you
are dead"
Old Mrs. Million wasn't
joking either. Her one eye
blazed. For thirty years she
had been one of the leading ship
ping sharks of Baltimore. Now,
right across the street from her
Globe Restaurant" lived several
hundred seamen who not only we're
administering relief to the unem-
ployed with United States govern
ment funds. but had set up their
own employment agency. On Mrs.
Millions own threshold stood the
Chairman Of the sesmen's United
Front Shipping Committee, serving
notice that henceforth marine
workers Of all unions and the I'M
organized as we'll would be shipped,
free of charge and without obliga-
ton to purchase gin, food or fancy
necktie, through the seamen's Cen
tralized Shipping Bureau.
The shipowners felt the same as
Mrs. Mifion about it. Before they
realized what was happening, how
ever, the seanen were so solid in
the Centralized Shipping Bureau
that there was nothing they could
do directly. They formed a united
front against seamen's control Of
relief, therefore, with officials of the
International Seamen's Union CA.
F. of ID the Socialist Party, the
I. w. W., the Y. M C. A., and the
Sea Service of the United States
Shipping Board. The federal gov
eminent accommodated them by
withdrawing relief funds.
But it was too late!
The seamen who they contended
were "intimidated" into shipping
through the Centralized Shipping
Bureau in order to get relief gave
the lie to the sham by uniting closer |
than ever to protect the Centralized /
Shipping Bureau even before they
thought Of relief. They realized |
the drive was an oblique attack
upon their employment agency
And the Centralized Shipping
Bureau still controls go per cent of
the Jobs in the port Of Baltimore.
It faces new menace: the |