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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
Strike OF 5000 Auto Tool,
Die Makers Looms Today:
Smith Maneuvering Sellout
Popmlarize the Struggle for Power,
For SOviet United States
(AN EDITo RIAL)

ONE of the most important contributions of the Eighth
" National Convention of the Communist Party was the
more clear concrete and foreu placing of the problem of
the revolutionary way out of the crisis the problem of
working-c power.
There have been certain tendencies in practice though
not in theory TO make the immediate dayo-day struggles for the
workers needs itself.
The Communist Party always entered
masses with twood objective First strength
and capacity to organize the
victories that wages improved working conditions social
insurance etc. Secondly aimed
basis OF their present nbearabe living conditions their expert
in struggle that power class
interests Of their capitalist expoe that power
must be destroyed by proaran revolution
through such revolution
will then enable the workers to lead the building
classics, socialist society.
In other words in the dayto-day oing
improve their conditions capitalism Communists
always the reject DID, shop-worn theories
Continued Page Six
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
Taxi Union Head Reveals Betrayal of Socialist Leaders

possible that Mr.. Most introduced
and voted upon this resolution him
self?
Mr. Most states that we were Of
fered plebiscite by Mrs. Herrick,
that we rejected this plebiscite, and
then pleaded with the MIRA. and
the city officials for the same pie
biscite that he claims we rejected
Mosts Autocratic lasts
We believe that Mr.. Most is fully
aware that the methods of the
Manhattan Local leadership are
thoroughly democratic; that we
never accepted or rejected any pro-
posal without the approval of the
rank and file. Mr.. Most knows that
we have at all times submitted all
proposals to the membership for
rejection or acceptance. This
method possibly does not appeal to
the autocratic tastes of Mr.. Most.
What our membership rejected was
not proposal for a plebiscite that
would be thoroughly democratic,
free from all intimidation, and
coercion, but proposal of Mrs.
Herrick that we first go back to
work before the plebiscite was to
be held.
Mr.. Most, why do you rebuke us
for this? AS a so-called labor or
ganizer, you should know what it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12

Yes, Mr.. Most, we did reject this
plebiscite, and we are mighty proud
of having done so. Mr.. Most states
that we closed the doors to all nego-
tiations. Why? Because we rejected
plebiscite which put the odds
against us? Many of us are now
seriously considering whether all of
our negotiations in City Hall were
worth the time spent upon them.
We are inclined to believe that these
negotiations had the twofold pur-
pose of crushing our strikes; first
by compelling the leaders to absent
themselves from the men, thereby
losing contact with them, as all
these negotiations were dragged-out
affairs; and secondly, by fostering
a false illusion that something
worthwhile can be gotten at these
parleys. 1t has been our bitter ex-
perience that these parleys are
dragged out until our men are
starved into submission, or they
result in the sort of an agreement
that your master, Mr.. Panken,
showed down our Threats, the agree
ment which terminated the Febru-
airy strike.
Mr.. Most's FalsehoOd
The statement of Mr.. Most that
we rejected Mrs. Herrick's sell-out
plebiscite without the knowledge of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
Y cts to Meet
In W ashington
On May 10th
Rank and File Demand
Cash Bonus, Repeal
of Economy Act

WASHINGTON, D. c., April IL
The Veterans National Rank and
File Committee has issued a call
here for mass rank and file con-
vention of the veterans to take place
here on May 10.
The convention will demand COM
plete repeal of the Economy Act,
and nothing less than the return
to the status of benefits paid March
10, 1888" The recent concessions
made to the veterans by Congress in
the Independent Offices Act did not
fully restore to the veterans the al
lowances taken from them by
RooSevelt's Economy Act.
The veterans convention will de-
mand immediate cash payment Of
the bonus and will support the de-
mandS for relief to the unemployed
and to the farmers.
The Veterans Rank and File Com
mittee, P o. Box lit, Washington,
D. c., calls on all veterans to send
resolutions to Congressman, Presi-
dent Roosevelt, to the Veterans Ad-
mimstration, demanding that APP
preparations be made to feed and
house the rank and file delegates
during their stay in Washington.
The veterans are called on to hold
demonstrations and rallies in every
Congressional district and to select
veterans to go to Washington. All
veterans in shops. factories, frater-
nal orders are called on to support
the mass convention in Washington,
and to send representatives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
Hitler Court
Plans Death
For SO Seanen
German Red Aid Urges
Immediate Worldwide
Mass Protests

HAMBURG, Germany, April IL,
(By Cable. - Trial of so German
seamen and harbor- workers, charged
with revolutionary activities, began
here today. The death penalty is
asked of the Hitler court by the
Hitler prosecutor.
The German Red Aid is actively
organizing mass defense of these
workers, and has called for support
from anti-fascist workers in all
parts of the world, in the form of
resolutions and cables of protest,
demapIing the release OF these
workelts Protests should be adj
dressed to the Hanseatisches Son
dergericht, Hamburg, Germany, the
court before which they are being
tried.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
1900 Buffalo Relief
Workers Strike for
Overdue Back Pay
M arch on City Hall;
Drive Disruptor
from Meeting

BUFFALO, N. Y, April 11.-Six-
teen hundred workers here, en-
ployed by the Temporary Emergency
Relief Administration, struck on the
job yesterday for the back pay due
them, and several hundred marched
on the City Hall Under the leader
ship of the Employed and Unem-
ployed Protective League which had
issued general strike call to all
relief workers ON Monday, the
workers are demanding full cash
payment of their wages, which are
now two weeks overdue.
The self-styled leader" Frank
Starkins, who sabotaged the last
strike by issuing statements to the
press that the strike had been called
by little group of adventurists, Z"
was exposed and driven from the
strike meeting by the workers with
the cries of "stool pigeon" skunk. !"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12

10 to 20 years on the chain-gang in
Atlanta, Ga.
NEW YORK-A call to all SYM
pathizerS with the Scottsboro boys
to intensity their protest against
the torture of the Scottsboro boys
in jefferson County jail, where
they are being kept in solitary and
given beatings in an effort to force
them to renounce the I. L. D. de-
Tense and accept a lynch lawyer
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
was sent out today by William L.
Patterson, national I. L. D. secre-
tary.
Protests, addressed to Governor
Miller, the state supreme court and
the warden Of Kilby Prison, Mont
gomery, Ala, should demand per-
mission for I. L. D. lawyers and
representatives to see the boys
held in that prison.
Protests against the torture OF
the boys in Birmingham should be
sent to Governor Miller, the state
supreme court, all at Montgomery,
Ala; the sheriff of jefferson
County and the warden Of jefferson
County jail. Birmingham, Ala.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
$50 Hartford Aero Men Walk Out.
Cops attack Curtiss Strikers in Buffalo
Expect Hartford Walk
out to Involve 1000
in Wage Demand

HARTFORD, Conn, April IL
The strike in the aviation war in
dustry here is rapidly spreading.
Over $50 workers are already out.
-Four hundred in three departments
of the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft
Company today joined with $50
aviation workers who struck yester-
day at the Hamilton Standard
Propeller Co.
The strikers are demanding the
restoration of the 1929 wage levels.
The strike is expected to spread to
the Chance Voight Corporation
Wednesday, if the workers demand
of an immediate 10 per cent pay
increase is not granted.
All three concerns are subsidiaries
of the United Aircraft and Trans
port Corporation. They employ
around 1000 workers. The strike is
under the leadership of the Indus
trial Aircraft Workers of America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
Buffalo Aero Strikers
Keep Scabs Out
of Factory
Especial to the Daily worker

BUFFALO, N. Y, April 1.-Two
thousand workers of the Curtis Air
craft plant battled scabs and police
here yesterday. Police details have
been increased, and all are armed
with tear gas bombs. When police
rushed scab cars through the plant
and made their attack on the
strikers, they answered with a
shower of stones against the scabS.
One cop and six other persons were
injured.
Sheriff Frank ]. Offerman has
asked the Erie County Board of
Supervisors for $1,000 for additional
deputies.
The company threatens to move
the plant to Baltimore. The strikers
appeal to all workers organizations
in Baltimore, Bristol, Pa, and Gar
den City, Long Island, to help them
by preventing the recruitment of
scabs. They have sent kilograms of
protest to Sheriff Offerman, Buffalo.
All workers organizations are urged
to send pledges pf solidarity and
support to the Aeronautical Workers
Union, 244 Forest Ave, Buffalo, N. Y.
For further news of the Curtiss
strike, see Page 3
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
Cant See Scottsboro Niggers',
Jailers Tell |. L. ID. Attorney
Patterson and Norris Denied Right To Consult
With Attorney Pending Appeal;
Vigorous Protests Urged

MONTGOMERY, Ala, April H.
II don't give damn who you got
letter from, you can't see those
Scottsboro niggers," was the an
swer of the jailers here to a request
by Benjamin J. Davis. Jr. Negro
I. L. D. attorney of Atlanta, Ca,
who was sent by the 7. L. D. to in
terview Haywood Patterson and
Clarence Norris in Kilby prison.
Davis had a letter from Joseph
Brodsky, chief counsel for the I,
L. D. and attorney of record in the
scottsboro case, authorizing him to
interview the boys as member of
counsel. He was categorically re-
fused permission to see them.
Davis announced he would return
in a few days and force the prison
authorities to let him see the boys.
Davis is I. L. D. counsel retained
in the legal defense Of Angelo
Herndon, young Negro organizer of
the unemployed under sentence of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
BY A. B. MAGH
Especial to the Daily Worker

DETROIT, Mich, April 11.-While
the strike Of 800 workers Of the De-
troit Stove Co., under the leadership
of the Mechanics Educational So
ciety of America holds solid, walk
out of 5000 tool and diemakers for
tomorrow midnight doomed as re-
suit of the rejection today by the
Manufacturers Association, repre-
senting the job shops, Of the mems
demands.
The tool and diemakers, organ
lied in the M. E. S. A, are demand
ing a 20 per cent wage increase, a
30-hour week, overtime pay for
hours over seven; no Saturday
work; and "a hours notice on dis
charge.
Matthew Smith, general secretary
of the M. E. S. A., is doing every
thing possible to prevent the strike,
despite the demand for action by
the men. Smith is laying the basis
for bringing in the strikebreaking
Regional Labor Board, of which he
is a member. But his hand may be
forced by the rank and file who last
Saturday vot Ell unanimously to
strike tomorrow midnight.
This afternoon Smith conferred
with officials of two General Motors
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
World Workers to
Protest ScOtSbOrO
Verdicts april 25

NEW YORK. - The Interna-
tionaI Labor Defense in more
than 70 countries throughout the
world will participate in an in
5ensive Scottsboro protest drive,
eliminating in demonstrations
before American consulates April
IS, anniversary of the first big
Scottsboro demonstration, held
in Harlem on that date in 1881.
The demonstrations and &C
lions throughout the world, I'M
der the direction of the Interna-
tional Red Aid, world LID.
body, will be directed to the de-
mand for reversal of the lynch
sentences against Haywood Pat
terson and Clarence Norris by
the Alabama State Supreme
Court, before whom the cases are
now being appealed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
Plan Demonstrations i'm
Schools Throughout
the United States
N. Y. MEET TONIGHT
Final Preparations to
Be Made for Actions

NEW YORK.-Students in
universities, colleges and high
schools throughout the United
States will hold scores of mass
meetings against war and
take part in a one-hour strike
against war tomorrow, according to
an announcement issued by the
Youth Section of the American
League Against War and Fascism.
The one-hour strike will begin at
II a. m. tomorrow. 1t has been
planned and organized jointly by
the National Student League and
the League for Industrial Democ-
racy, with the assistance and sup
port Of the youth section of the
League Against War and Fascism
the Young Communist League and
other young workers and students
organizations.
NEW YORK.-A joint mass and
membership meeting of the League
for Industrial Democracy and the
National Student League will be
held tonight at the Union M. E.
Church, 229 W. 48th ST., to make
final preparations for the student
strike against war on Friday.
Following the meeting the entire
membership will form a torchlight
parade through the Times Square
district.
The strike preparations are find
ing great response in the city high
schools and colleges, with a great
number of faculty members of Co.
lumbia University, New York Uni
versity, Brooklyn College and City
C"'aTe endorsing the move.
At the Washington Heights Sec
tier Of New York University Dean
Archibald Bouton has warned the
students not to strike. His threats
were thrown back at a large student.
mess meeting on Wednesday.
The Peace Council of Hunter
College has come out in support Of
tha o-rilc. At Columbia University
q strike committee of three students
is interviewing President Nicholas
Murray Butler, to get his stand on
the struggle against war.
Besider the strike being prepared
at De Witt Clinton High School and
Abraham Lincoln, large mass meet
ings at Jamaica High School, where
students are given military train
ing, and Townsend Harris, have
been orgenized to get the sentiment
of the students towards the call
of the Youth Section of the Amer
(Contiruea on Pare y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
200 Dock Workers
Strike in st. Louis
For Wage Increase
Barge Captains Out on
Strike in N. Y.
HarbOr
Especial to the Daily Workerl

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 1.-Two
hundred Negro and rs white work
ers of the Federal Barge Line, gov
eminent controlled, struck at noon
yesterday. They demand a 40 per
cent increase in wages.
A joint strike committee of the
A. F. of L. members and the Marine
Workers Industrial Union was
formed. There is complete solidarity
and united front among the work
ers. Lee. Negro ward heeler, is max
ing an effort to split the strikers
ranks.
The Regional Labor Board is ae-
tive, but the men from the start
are determined to win.
The American Steel, U. S. Steel
subsidiary, and the Monsanto
Chemical Co. need sulphur, barge
line cargo, to operate for war pro-
duction, which they cannot now OBJ
tain with the barge lines tied up.
There is a move on to spread the
strike to the railroads and to other
barge lines.
NEW YORK-Thirty barge cap
tains of the Hedgers Transportation
Co., located at the foot of Columbia
ST., Brooklyn, walked out on strike
yesterday against the miserable
conditions prevailing on the barges.
Over TOO barges are expected to be
tied up within the next few days.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union, 140 Broad St, has pledged
it's support TO the bargemen and has
called on them to elect committee
of the pest fighters among them to
lead the strike.
Spread the strike to other
barges," says the call issued by the
Marine Workers Industrial Union.
The union offered the bargemen
assistance to organize mass picket
line and warned the strikers to be-
ware Of individual "negotiators" who
want to settle" the strike through
private negotiations with the barge
owners without the whole strike
committee being present
The men are forced to remain
aboard the barges "a hours a day
for the generous N.R.A. sum of 81
day The strikers are demanding
slS5 month and 50 q night for
watching the barge
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
Panken, Levy, Most Are
Main Obstacles to
Success
BY SAMUEL oRNER

president of Manhattan Local,
Taxi Drivers Union of Greater N.Y.
NEW YORK. - The Labor Sec
ton" of the Socialist weekly, the
New Leader of Saturday, April Z,
features an article by Anxious Most,
so-called organizer of the Bronx
Local of the Taxicab Drivers Union
of Greater New York, which con-
tains statements rejecting upon the
honesty, integrity and ability of the
leadership of the Manhattan Local.
In conjunction with this article,
this same New Leader carries what
purports to be a resolution imply
ing censure of the methods en-
ployed by the Manhattan Local.
We would be pleased to know
when and where this resolution was
voted upon. We have made some
inquiries of dozens of Bronx mem
bers, but all seem to be in the dark
as to this resolution. On one thing
they are all in perfect accord-that
this resolution was never put to a
vote of the Bronx members. Is it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
Urges Rank and File
Socialists to Halt the
Split Maneuver

the Bronx and Brooklyn leaders is
downright lie. Both Mr.. Gold
stein of the Brooklyn Local and Mr..
Smith of the Bronx Local were pre-
sent at Mr.. Golden's home with the
Manhattan leaders, when all of the
above informed Mr.. Golden, Secre-
tary Of the Regional Labor Board,
that the plebiscite was unacceptable
to the men of all the locals. Prob
ably the only one not consulted was
Mr.. Most. If Mr. Most would have
spent more time with the strikers
and less time at Mr.. Pankens home
receiving instructions on how to be-
fiddle the men, probably he would
have had an opportunity to vote in
the affirmative on Mrs. Herrirk's
sell-out plebiscite.
Mr.. Most rebubes the Manhattan
Local for calling a conference of
labor unions, fraternal organiza-
tons, ETC., at which Mr.. Most says
that Ben Gold was to be the chief
speaker. At no time was the sug-
gestion made that Ben Gold was
(Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
Workers Rally to Defense of
Right to Union So. May First
Many Groups Support
Call for United Front
Conference Saturday

NEW YORK. York work
ers yesterday answered the attack
by Mayor LaGuardia and his po-
lice department on the plans of the
United Front May Day Arrange
ments Committee for the use of
Union So. on May Day by passing
resolutions supporting the commit
tees and expressing their deter1ni-
nation to march on Union So. on
May First.
The City Committee of the IN
ternational Workers Order, repre-
senting membership of $4,000,
pledged to mobilize our entire
membership in New York City to
march as body together with all
the working class organizations on
this May First" The United Coun-
Gil of Working Glass Women, rep
resenting 1000 members, stated it's
support of the United Front May
Day demonstration.
A call to all A. F. of L. locals
and rank and file groups in the
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
Perkins Would
Extend ''Share
Work" Scheme
Lewis Accepts the Plan
Which Would Cut
Miners Wages
By SEYMOUR WALDMAN
DAILY Worker Warrington Bureau)

(Odiiy WOfker warrington bureau
WASHINGTON, April 11.-secre-
tary of Labor Frances Perkins to-
day announced that a special an
thracite coal committee named by
her has recommended the applica-
ton of the share -the-work plan to
the Western Pennsylvania area.
Their report recommended the reg
ulated equalization or shortening of
the working week to 80 hours in four
days" and unemployment insur-
ance" based on joint contributions
by miners and operators to solve
the emergency situation in the coal
fields"
Mary Van Kieeck, Director Of In
dustrial Studies of the Russell Sage
Foundation, characterized the Per-
kins committee report as another
effort to force the miners to bear
the burden Of the exploitation of
the non-restorable natural resource,
coal" The share the-work" plan,
which was first inaugurated by
Herbert Hoover, means wage cuts
for those put on part time.
To Extend Wage Cutting Scheme
Miss Perkins indicated that the
share-the-work (share-the-m misery
plan will be applied to other in
dustries, thus making it clear that
the Roosevelt administration, sup
ported by the officialdom of the
American Federation of Labor, has
begun new drive to make the en-
ployed workers share what little
they have with the nearly 100000
unemployed. 1.-THE plan is not per-
lCoNttnNed on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
Students to Hit
War Tomorrow
In Many Strikes
"DaiIy" To Print Full
Test of Earl BrOwder
Report on Saturday

-Four full pages of the Satur-
day edition Of the Daily Worker
will be devoted to the publica-
ton of the brilliant report by
Earl Browder, General Secretary
of the Communist Party, to the
Eighth National Convention,
which was held in Cleveland last
week. The four pages will COM
prise a separate and removable
section of the issue, 50 that
workers will be able to preserve
this mastery analysis for future
reference.
All workers organizations,
clubs and units who want to
spread this report should order
special bundles of the Saturday
edition Immediately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
Libel Hearing of the
DAILY Writer Is
Postponed 2 Weeks

NEW YORK The hearing on the
case of Harry Raymond, Daily
Worker staff writer, accused by
George Williams, notorious strike
breaker, Of criminal libel, which was
called for Tuesday, April 10, was
again postponed-thiS time until
April "a
This law suit, while aimed per-
sonally at Raymond, is an attempt
on the part of the Williams and
Sherwood strikebreaking forces to
muzzle the Daily Worker, which is
the only paper that supported the
taxi drivers strike and effectively
exposed the enemies of the hack
men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
TaxiUniOn Will Not
Affiliate With AL.
Says Samuel Orner
Calls Mass Meeting in
Manhattan to Hit the
Union Splitters
BULLETIN

NEW YORK. - The officials of
The Taxi Cab Drivers Union of
Greater New York will lead a
delegation of taxi-cab drivers,
whose licenses have been ssEs-
pended or revoked by the Hack
Bureau of the Police Department,
and their wives and children to
City Hall. Friday, at IL am.
Included in this delegation will
be men who for their strike ac-
tivities are being Disseminated
against and black Listed in the
taxi cab garages in the city of
New York.
The men will meet on the Plaza
Of City Hall with their wives and
children to demand that both their
licenses and their jobs be restored,
or that the city award them cash
relief.
NEW YORK.-The Taxicab Driv-
CLIO OAA1O1l VI 1lOdGCI INGW OIk lldS
not affiliated and does not intend
to affiliate with the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, Sam Orner, Presi-
dent of the Manhattan Local de-
clared in a statement yesterday.
"a resolution purporting to repre-
sent the decision of the member
ship was alleged to have been
adopted in the Joint Council of the
Union by Messrs. Most and Smith
Of the Bronx Local, and Mr.. Gold
stein of Brooklyn. No such endorse
ment was ever given by the Joint
Council to our knowledge" said Mr..
Orner. The resolution was the
work of handful of people work.
ing under the guidance and insti-
cation of the Socialist Party leader
ship and does not have the backing
Continued on Page q