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he shall designate, shall decide
such disputes.
Text Of the order follows:
"By virtue Of authority vested
En me as President Of the
United States, it Is hereby
ordered that:
Fl. (a) All invitations to bid
ders hereafter promulgated by
or In behalf Of any executive
department or Independent es-
tablishment or other agency or
inStrumentality Of the United
States, including Government
owned and Government con-
trOlled corporations (alI Of the
foregoing being hereinafter de-
scribed as agencies Of the
United StateS), shall contain
q provision to the effect that
no bid will be considered unless
1t includes or is accompanied
by a certificate duly executed
by the bidder stating that the
bidder is complying with and
will continue to comply with
each approved code of fair COM
petition to which he is subject,
and If engaged in any trade or
industry for which there is no
approved code of fair cOmpe-
tttiOn, then stating that as to
such trade or industry he has
become a party to and is COM
plying with and will continue
to comply with an agreement
with the President under Sec
tiOn 4 (a) Of the National In
duStrial Recovery Act.
BID MUST COMPLY
"(b) No bid which does not
comply with the foregoing re-
QuirementS shall be considered
or accepted.
"(c) All contracts and pur-
chase orders authorized by any
agency of the United States
shall contain a provision to the
effect that the party or parties
awarded any such contract or
purchase order shall comply
with each approved code of fair
competition to which it is sub
ject and if engaged in any trade
or industry for which there is
no approved code of fair COM
petition, then, as to such trade
or industry, with an agreement
with the President as aforesaid;
and that the United States shall
have the right to cancel any
contract for failure to comply
with such provision and make
open market purchases or have
the work called for by the con-
tract otherwise performed, at
the expense of the contractor.
"(d) No agency of the
United States and no Govern
ment contractor or SuppIier
shall hereafter accept or pur-
chase for the performance of
any contract or purchase order
or enter into any SubcOntractS
for any articles, materials or
supplies, in whole or in part
produced or furnished by any
person who shall not have
certified that he is complying
with and will continue to com
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"5. The Administrator for In
dustrial Recovery may make ex.
ceptions In specific cases or
otherwise under this order
whenever such action shall be
recommended to him by an
agency Of the United States
and when in the judgment Of
the Administrator justice or
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public interest will best be
served thereby.
"6. Any provision Of Execu-
tive Order No. 6246, signed Au-
gust 10, 1888, or any other
executive order, and any rule
or regulation in conflict here
with are hereby to that extent
modified and reScinded.
'TRANKLIN d. ROOSEVELT"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24
90 Negro Tenants Barely
Escape Death BY Fire ir,
Harlem Stun Tenement

and forced to leave their fat at this
early hour, in almost freezing tenn
perature, as a precautionary
measure.
Park Ave. in Harlem, through
which Westchester railroad trains
run, is an extension of the wide and
airy avenue occupied by the wealthy
only mile south of the scene OF
yesterdays fire.
Following a meeting of the Land
lords Association, every tenant on
strike at 1879 and las Houston St
was yesterday served with sum-
mons to appear in court. M. Rich
man, the Houston st. spokesman OF
the tenants delegation, received a
summons which read:
while acting in concert with sew
eral others, he came to the COM
plainant's place of business at 156
Second Ave. and did threaten to do
bodily harm to the complainant and
others on March 20, 1894, at 4:3O
pm"
The summoned tenants have to
appear at Essex Market Court, Sec
ond st. and Second Ave, at 10 am,
Monday, March Is, before Judge
DeLuca.
Both the Steve Katovis Branch of
the International Labor Defense and
the Unemployed Council plan to
form mass picket line around the
landlords offices at 156 Second Ave,
Monday at 8 am.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24
Taxi Strikers March From Halls:
Picket Lines at ALI Garages in City
The 1animen's Fight for Bread Is Met By
LaCuardia Police Terror, Call for Troops
AN EDIToR RIAL

BECAUSE the New York taxi strikers
ID have effectively stopped the running
of scab cabs, every agency of the bosses
begins to howl in fury for the unleasing
of bloody reign of terror.
When the workers, through their mill
tant action, are on the verge of winning
victory for union recognition and i'm
proved conditions, the taxi owners, with
the capitalist press at their head, shrek
like a pack of bloodhounds for violence
and more violence against the workers
When the company gunner and thugs
assault strikers, that is not violence
When the police attack picket lines, that
is applauded by the capitalist press.
When the taxi companies, financed by the
biggest banks, force and terrorize the
men into company unions, that is not con-
sidered worthy of mention When police
and troops shoot down steel strikers, coal
miners, their wives and children, this is
"law and order" in the eyes Of the bosses.
Only when the workers fight against starva-
ton conditions against bIacklsting against the La
Guardia starvation code, for a chance to live and
to organize, then every boss clique cries bloody
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24
lO2 Bomber Planes
And 1884 WarshiDs
Approved in Senate
Billion Dollar Bill
Will Get Roosevelt's
Signature

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 2s.
"A record-breaking, one billion dol
lar war bill was passed today by
the Senate without a roll call, and
awaits only the signature of Roose-
welt to become law. 1t is the Vinson
Naval Bill authorizing the govern
ment to appropriate one billion
dollars for the building of battle
ships and airplanes Roosevelt has
already stated his approval of the
bill. This brings the Roosevelt war
program well within the two bill
lion dollar mark within less than a
period of one year.
The bill provides for the construc-
ton of 102 new vessels and 1,184 war
planes, bringing the American war
machine TO the top limits set by
the London Naval Treaty. Attack
ing the huge profit grabbing that
the Roosevelt war program is pro-
viding for the munitions and ship
building magnates, Senator Bone
said that the Wall Street shipbuild-
ers were the most arrogant band
OF racketeers that ever foisted them
selves upon helpless people" He
suggested, however, that the gov
eminent maintain its present huge
war building program, but do the
building itself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24
Tenant Strikers on East
Side Are Summoned to
Court on Monday

NEW YORK.-Sixty Negro ten
ants narrowly escaped being burned
to death when fire broke out shortly
before am. yesterday in FIVE
story Harlem old-law tenement at
1884 Park Ave, between 103d and
104th SITS.
The fire, which started in the Gel
lar and ragged upwards through the
dumbwaiter shaft, was discovered
just in time for warnings to be
spread throughout the house. The
building has wooden stairs of the
type which have sealed the collins
OF 48 working class tenants in New
York f1retraps since Jan. /.
Firemen, arriving on the scene
after Henry Thomas, Is, discov-
cred the fire and told a patrolman
to turn in the alarm, declared that
only the fact that the fire had
started short distance away from
the stairs enabled the so ten
ants, Negro workers, their wives
and children, to escape safely.
Only this averted another firetrap
tragedy Of the kind which took
seven lives at E. Goth st. and Sec
ond Ave. few days ago.
Tenants of an adjoining building.
1882 Park Ave-, were also aroused
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24

murder. They want the police modified to crush
the strike, in order to drive the men back to the
conditions under which they Shaving before the
strike
What are the taxi drivers fighting for? They
want recognition of their union, as a guarantee
that their conditions will be enforced. They demand
a minimum of S23 day for day men and SIS for
night drivers. They fighting against the COM
pany union which terrorizes the men, and tries to
keep them under the most miserable conditions
They fighting against LaGuardias taxi code that
provides the NR.A. minimum wage of S12 a week
The taxi drivers, because they have refused to
accept the NRA. arbitration" that broke the hotel
strike and drove the workers back to discrimina-
ton and miserable conditions are being berated
by the capitalist press.
Because they will not swallow LaGuardia's code
this vaunted friend of labor" calls special meet
ing Of the police and instructs Them through the
of violence and terror to force the men to ac-
cept the miserable conditions he wants to impose
The leadership of the taxi drivers union has
shown through struggle that it is the only leader
ship which can head the fight for improved con-
ditions and union recognition
THE TERMINAL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM. in
full page advertisements spends tens of thousands
Of dollars in brides to the capitalist press for pub
fishing scurrilous lying letter about the strike of
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24
Govt Stalls
Auto Men to
Stop Strike
Johnson Talks Openly
AS Representative of
Auto Manufacturers
By SEYMOUR WALDMAN

BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, March 2S.-The
Roosevelt strike-stalling negotia-
tons today reached the point Of
open conspiracy to keep the auto
delegates in Washington to the point
where it would be Instantaneous
for them to issue a strike order to
the eager rank and file now I'M
certainly held back by the strongest
pressure which the A. F. of L. ma
chine can exert.
Roosevelt told the press this af-
ternoon, nearly three days after the
strike was to have started, that he
hand't heard from MIRA. Admin
strator johnson since noon and that
he still held himself in readiness to
see either the manufacturers or the
labor delegates at any time. Despite
numerous questions, he refused to
divulge just what anti-strike pro-
gram he will spring on the impa-
tent auto workers when the rank
and files eagerness to strike will
force new administration move.
In the d-afternoon the A. F. of
L. delegates were corralled in Ed
ward McGrady's Office to await Gen
eral johnson for another session of
the latter's beating in the in
terests of the manufacturers. 1t
is indeed significant to note that
johnson is openly and frankly
working for the manufacturers, even
going to the extent of talking in
language almost identical with that
of William Knudsen, executive vice
president of j. P. Morgan's General
Motors Corporation, the leader Of
the owners forces. The charges of
discrimination in 200 deaders) cases
out of approximately 250,000 en-
ployees was nothing at ALL" said
the general to the press late yester-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24
c. W.. Projects in Action for
Garden Meet and Protest Strike
Trade Unions Take Part /:
Negro Masses
Demand Jobs

NEW YORK. Workers on G. w
A. projects, trade union locals, Ne
gro organizations, employed ano
unemployed workers were making
last minute mobilization yesterday
for the great Madison Square Gar
den protest rally which takes place
tomorrow, Sunday, at pm. against
the C.WA. firing.
The Garden mass demonstration
tomorrow, at which many thou
sands are expected to attend, is q
rallying point for the one hour, ma
tionwide protest strike for C.W.A
jobs which takes place next Thurs
day, March 20, at 3 p. m.
The entire supply of one hundred
thousand leaflets announcing the
Madison Square Garden meeting
tomorrow afternoon, was exhausted
yesterday and workers on C.WA
projects were getting out additional
leaflets Of their own. Workers from
C.W.A. projects were phoning anc
coming steadily into the offices o.
the Unemployment Councils anc
the Relief Workers League, at q
E. goth St., and to the headquarter,
of the United Front Committee o.
100, in charge of the meeting, ask.
ing for speakers az the project mas
meetings, for additional leaflets
and for organizers.
Trade Union Active
Resolutions are being passed BY
the workers on the projects, en-.
dorsing the Garden meeting at two
o'clock tomorrow and the one-houl
protest strike on Thursday, March
20 at 3 p. m. On project 90, The
Board of Health project that EN-.
ploys 10000 men, the C.W.A. Of
ficials tried to influence the work
ers to drop out of the united from
protest strike for C.W.A. jobs. But
the workers decided to continue
circulating their petitions for con.
tinuation of C.WA. work, and col
lection of money for the Garder
meeting, and decided to take part
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24
Cal. LOngshOremen
Strike Is ThrOttled
by Pres. Roosevelt
Sends Wire to I. L. A.
Takers; Asks Them To
Suspend" Strike

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, March
22.-Flouting a 100 to 1 vote for
strike yesterday, w. ]. Lewis, PreSi-
dent of the Pacific Coast District of
the International Longshoremens
Association, at the request of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, called off strike of
$4,000 longshoremen set for today.
The workers were all ready to go
out on strike for recognition Of their
union, the closed shop, and in
creased wages On the request OF
George Creel, former state director
Of the N. R. A., Roosevelt sent the
following telegram to the I. L. A,
officials:
TN public interest, I am con-
strained to ask you to suspend
strike, effective Friday, March %,
until an investigation of all mat
tiers in controversy can be made
by impartial board which 1 will
name. This board will be en-
powered to conduct hearings and
make recommendations as basis
for peaceful settlement of differ
ences by negotiation. / earnestly
ask your cooperation and will
appreciate an immediate reply"
When notice Of the strike being
called off was posted over 400
lockers Stormed the I, L. A, Office
protesting and demanding the strike
be called. A meeting, set for I
o'clock last night, was called of,
The men booed this announcement.
Meanwhile, local police are being
modified in an effort to enforce
Roosevelt's strike-breaking order if
the men go out on strike over the
heads of their leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24
U. S. Senate Approves
Filipino Freedom Bill

WASHINGTON, March 23-The
Senate yesterday passed the Tydings
McDuf1e Philippine independence"
bill, which was passed Tuesday by
the House.
This bill designed to bride the
Filipino landlord-capitalists and
head off the mass movement for
real independence, provides for "in-
dependence" in ten years, and me
gotiations' to withdraw U. s. mill
tary and naval establishments some
years later.
Meanwhile its economic provisions
fasten still more tightly the yoke
Of Wall Street financial dictatorship
over the island.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24
Greek Soldiers Face
Trial for Anti War
Agitation in Army


ATHENS, March 6 (By MaiD.-
Five soldiers of the 50th Infantry
Regiment, of Saloniki, and four of
the Fourth Regiment of Larissa are
to be brought up on trial for anti
war agitation. Among the Saloniki
soldiers is Jewish Communist,
Dsako, who led protest against
the national oppression of Jewish
soldiers.
Twenty other soldiers have al
ready been shipped to a convict
colony for revolutionary soldiers at
Kalpaki. These arrests have not
stopped revolutionary propaganda in
the army, and leaflets are being
widely distributed in the barracks
as before.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24
wv Ork Relief
To 100000:
1920 aMonth
To Re-Investigate Every
Month; Jobless on
Pauper Basis
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureaul

WASHINGTON, March 23-Hun-
ger, RECOMMENDATION and monthly in
vestigation-this is the program the
government announced today for
tens of thousands of farmers ruined
by the Roosevelt crop-reduction
plan. For city unemployed the pro-
gram will furnish work to only
100000 of the 100000 or so job
less. They will receive, today's an
nouncement disclosed, from SI6.20
to $3.50 per month per family.
They will be required to show
pauperism and to submit all griev-
ances to arbitration by local boards
set up by the Relief Administration.
In the official words of Harry L.
Hopkins, Federal Relief Director.
the unemployed in rural districts
(including towns of 5000 popula-
tom will receive subsistence "a
tons" instead of pay for labor on
government jobs. and this only for
transitional period" and after
complete ADMINISTRATION every
month shows the applicant is "des-
titute."
Roosevelt said, Work will be
given to an individual for period
not to exceed six months" Hop
kins' announcement today didn't
mention this, but a previous state
ment said works money must be
used hereafter ito provide employ
ment only for persons in need of
relief" Officials estimate some
100000 are still on C.W.A. rolls.
These will be cut down by firing
all lin whose families more than
one person is gainfully employed, y
and all who have other resources, .
such as, presumably, even credit.
S16.2O a Month
Those still on the rolls in cities
on April l will be transferred to
the works division of the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration, "
but in no case will the Works d.
vision have more than about $780,
600 on the pay roll. Wages will be
at prevailing rates for the occupa-
ton and loyalty but the hours
shall be limited SO that the maxi
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24
Gallagher, Liebowitz Speak
Tomorrow

NEW YORK-Leo Gallagher, In
ternational Labor Defense attorney,
Samuel Liebowitz, Scottsboro de-
tense lawyer, Isadore Polier, ex-
ecutive secretary of the Interna-
tional Juridical Association, and
Isadore Begun, expelled militant
N. Y. teacher, will participate in a
symposium tomorrow, 2 pm, on
Law and Social Justice" at Irving
Plaza, 18th st. and Irving Place.
The meeting is under the auspices
of the National Student League.
Admission Is cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24
Is AFL Locals Join
in San Francisco
CWADenlOnStratiOn

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March
23-The city-wide united front
demonstration to be held here on
March 81 in protest against the
Roosevelt order to fire all C.W.A.
workers, already involves 46
workers organizations. Fifteen
A. F. of L. locals have already
declared their intention to par
ticipate.
The workers are demanding
continuation Of the C. w. A.;
stopping Of the Roosevelt wage
cuts, and restoration of the 30
hour week, union wages to apply;
and the enactment of the Work
Ars Unemployment Insurance Bill
Oh. r. 1899.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24
Drivers Who Supported
LaGuardia AssaiI His
Mailed Fist Policy
CALL FOR RELIEF
Union Scores Letter of
Fleet Owners
BY HARRY RAYMOND

NEW YORK, March %
Mayor LaGuardia's trump
card of brutal terror and po-
lice and gangster violence has
failed to bulge the heroic
Taxi drivers one inch in their
struggle against the company union.
The strike of the New York hack
men stood firm yesterday, with the
Parmelce, Terminal and Radio oper-
ators literally on their knees gnash-
ing their teeth and wailing for help.
The strikers, who for several days
have been writing one Of the great
pages in New York's labor history,
fighting against great odds and re-
pulsing heavy police attacks, have
now advanced to a position where
victory is in sight,
Mayor La Guardia, who had IS
sued call for firm action" as
means to put over the starvation So
week taxi code, has failed to
break the strike.
Can't Trick Strikers.
Hundreds of arrests of strikers
have failed to smash the militancy
of the men. The Sherwood De-
tective Agency htugs, hvae Topped
on the job. Sherwood, the owner
Of the agency, called the Daily
Worker on the phone yesterday and
in furious rage demanded that the
paper quit exposing his strike break
ing racket. Mr.. Sherwood was told
by the city editor that the Daily
Worker has more evidence regard
ing his gangsterism and that the
paper will continue to expose him.
Parmelee, Terminal and Radio
owners, who issued a slanderous
open letter to the Mayor, calling
for martial law, have aroused the
hacl1nen to more stubborn and de-
termined action.
Failing in these initial attempts
to break the strike, all the strike
breaking forces in the city have
been once more rallied under the
leadership Of their grand field mar
shall, Mayor La Guardia, in
frantic effort to launch new con-
certed attack on the drivers.
The New York County Grand Jury
called in Police Commissioner
Organ for a so-called investigation
which is directed against the strik-
ers.
A move was made by leaders Of
the Drivers Brotherhood to bring
about the arrest of Samuel Orner
and Joseph Gilbert, the militant
leaders of the strike, on trumped-up
charges of melting to riot
Spirit High.
But despite this, the spirit Of the
strikers is high at the present mo-
ment. Picket lines at the garages
are strong and effective
Assembling at the strike head
quarters at Germania Hall, strike
pickets, many of them bearing
scars of the tremendous battles of
the past three days, moved in an
orderly manner to their picket
posts. Strengthening of the picket
lines al the garages was stressed
heavily by strike leaders yesterday.
100 Arrested
Incomplete reports show that 100
hackmen have been arrested and
are in various precinct police sta
tons. Many who we're beaten by
police clubs are in hospitals suffer-
ing serious injuries.
"These demonstrations will make
the fleet owners come down to us
crawling" said Samuel Orner, Presi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24
$500 C.W.A.
Win Strike
In Lancaster
$50 in Columbia Also
Win Complete
Victory

LANCASTER, Pa, March IS. -
The $500 C.W.A. workers who went
on strike here on Wednesday
against the Roosevelt starvation
wage rates, returned to work on Fri
day, winning complete victory.
During the strike, the closest SOL
idarity existed between the Negro
and white workers. Unable to smash
the determined ranks of the work
ers, the local press began a vicious
campaign Of SANDER against the
leadership, which is solid and has
the fullest confidence of the strik-
ers. The committee, which was
elected by the workers, are prepar-
ing answers to the attacks in the
capitalist press.
Columbia Workers Win
Encouraged by the determination
of the Lancaster workers, the $50
C.W.A. men in the nearby town of
Columbia struck at the same time.
This strike has also been settled
with victory for the workers.
The workers in both cities won
the following demands: so cents an
hour minimum wage for a 24-hour
week; back pay since the beginning
of the Roosevelt wage slash on
March 2; and all men to be taken
back without any discrimination for
strike activities. The workers re-
turned to work determined to carry
on organization for the future strug-
giles that lie ahead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24
Soviet Consul-Ceneral
To Open Office in N. Y.

NEW YORK--Leonid N. Tolo-
konsky, the first consul general of
the Soviet Union to reach America,
landed in N. Y. c. yesterday with his
wife and 7-year old daughter, La
risa. He will open a Soviet con-
sulate in New York, it was an
nounced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24
AL in Shameless
.Denagogy to Put
.OverAutO SellOut
Benjamin To Speak
Over Station WBNX
Sunday at 8:45 Pm.

NEW YORK.-Herbert Benja-
min, national organizer of the
Unemployment Councils, will
speak over station WBNX, a New
York Station with wave length
of 1850 kc., on Sunday, March
Is, from 8:45 to 9 pm.
Benjamin will speak on the
Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill Oh. r. 1899, and show
how the Roosevelt Wagner Re
serves" Bill would not give the
workers unemployment instr-
ance.
The program is being arranged
by the Magazine Debate Society.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24

What is your Unit, trade union,
mass organization doing to get
new subscribers for the Daily
Worker? Help put the sub drive
over the toni
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