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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22

But even with this additional
strength, the maneuvers of Tighe
and Green with the steel companies
present constant danger to the
workers. Whole districts have
passed unanimous resolutions
against the onclusion of any truce"
with the steel captains, but the bur-
den of Tighe's objection to truce
proposals is a demand for major
ity rule" only. Demands for higher
wages and shorter hours are not
raised.
The utmost vigilance is needed to
prevent Tighe and Green from
signing contract such as the steel
companies have made before with
unions contract with individuals
as heads Of the union, instead of
with the approval Of the union
membership This is the type of
agreement which John L. Lewis con-
cluded with steel companies for the
captive mines last year, and which
paved the way for the company
"Brotherhoods' of the coke fields.
In short, peace" almost at any
price, is the line of Green, Tighe,
and the Steel Labor Board. Only
the organization Of the rank and
file of the Amalgamated will pre-
vent a sellout and uphold the in
terests Of the steel workers, their
demand for action, for recognition
of their union and the betterment
of conditions and wages in the steel
mills q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22

promises made by Roosevelt. They
are demanding action, and the SEN
timent is movement which has
the broadcast support of rank and
file steel workers all over the coun-
try.
How large is tbs growing resent
ment can be judged by the per
sonal Intervention" at this point of
President Roosevelt. Last spring
the rank and file movement in steel
was so obviously disorganized that
VIM. Green was considered capable
of breaking up the threat of a walk
out. Now, however, it has reached
sub proportions that the President
himself has stepped in, to try and
repeat his efficient performance of
last winter in breaking the auto
strike and saddling the auto work.
ers with just such company union
agreement which the steel workers
are now offered.
Relief Groups Set Up
A major source of the growing
strength of the rank and file in
the A A. is the new orientation
toward the large section of unem-
ployed or part time steel workers.
The establishment of relief COM
mittees in each lodge of several of
the most important districts is
drawing the latter category of steel
workers into solid unity with the
employed, and has pulled many into
the union who would not otherwise
have joined
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
Heinz Neumann Held
By Swiss Government

Heinz Neumann, former leader Of
the German Communist Party, has
been arrested in Switzerland, and is
being held for extradition to Ger
many, according to a cablegram re-
ceived here today by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense.
Wide protest against the deter
mination of the Swiss government
to violate the traditional right of
asylum by sending Neumann to
Germany, where he faces imprison-
ment, torture, and lynch trial for
his leadership of anti-fascist activi-
ties, was called for by Anna Damon,
acting national secretary of the In
ternational Labor Defens.
Protests demanding freedom and
right of asylum for Neumann
should be addressed to the Swiss
consulates in Chicago, Cincinnati,
Denver, Los Angeles, New Orleans,
New York, Philadelphia, San Fran
cisco, and to Marc Peter, Swiss
minister to the United States, at
Washington, D. C.
The Swiss Consulate in New York
is at 468 Fourth Ave, and is tele-
phone number is BOgarduS 4-5256.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
BY TOM K ZEN IN

the company union at their own
sweet leisure.
The Duquesne workers, with their
president, VIM. Spang, fatty re-
fused to consider sub an agree
ment" when the proposal was
preached to them, seeing it for the
company union document which it
was, so that Tighe could do nothing
but echo their stand.
A clash with the steel captains
is the last thing in the world which
Tighe and Co. desire The A. A.
head has openly declared himself
against strikes on general prin-
ciples." So that while he goes
through the maneuvers of refusing
such a sellout agreement or truce"
Tighe and the international officers
are doing their best to betray the
stSeel workers into believing that
the Steel Labor Board will bring
them mama from the sky. Eight
months Of procrastination by the
old N. r. A. Labor Board and the
new body have brought not one
peep from President Tighe protest.
ing the delay.
Moved 10 Stop Strike
When a strike threatened in the
steel industry last spring, the A. A.
top leaders and VIM. Green turned
their undivided attention to pre-
venting walkout. They are still
concentrating on the same job.
The steel workers are demanding
the fulfillment of some of the false
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
Steel Workers Force Leaders to Reject n. r. A. Truce

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 21.-
Mass pressure of rank and file mem
bers of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton, which has been expressed in
an indignant rejection of the COM
pany union agreement whereby the
Iron and Steel Institute seeks to
force six-months truce" on the
steel workers, forced Mike Tighe and
A. F. of L. top leaders to turn down
the latest proposal of the steel en-
ployers, made in Washington under
the personal supervision" of Pres
ident Roosevelt.
Meanwhile, the Steel Labor Board
continues to delay action on pend
ing demands for reinstatement of
blacklisted steel workers and gov
ernm e n t-supervised elections in
plants Of the major steel companies,
in hopes that a truce" can be en-
forced without bucking the U. S.
Steel Corporation. Many cases,
notably those of the Duquesne and
Mcdonald plants of Carnegie Steel
Co. have been pending" now for
over eight months but the Board
is by no means averse to further
stalling.
Same Old Plan
The proposals of attorneys for the
steel trust were essentially the same
as those offered to Duouesne en-
ployees three weeks ago-the COM
pany would recognize mill commit
tees Of the Amalgamated as col
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
DAILY Worker Ohio BureAu)


DAYTON, o., Dec. 81. A new
chapter of the American Newspaper
Guild was formed here last Sunday
afternoon when 81 newspapermen
signed application cards and organ
lied the Dayton Newspaper Guild.
Newspapermen of all the Dayton
papers-Herald, News, Journal, Re-
view (weekly) and Dayton Labor
Union (trade union journaD-are
among those enrolled.
Inspired by the heroic struggle
carried on by the Guild in the New
ark Ledger strike, the Dayton news
papermen received with great en-
thusiasm the Guilds delegates from
Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati.
The organizational plan outlined by
w. M. Davy, executive secretary OF
the Cleveland Newspaper Guild and
organizer of the Fourth Region of
the Guild, met with enthusiastic
response. The constitution, with
only minor changes, was adopted
forthwith.
Curt Lovely of the News, who
acted as chairman, was elected pres
ident Jimmy Henry of the Herald,
secretary treasurer; and Jean Whit
aker Of the Review, vice-president.
The newly elected Executive
Board, comprised of the thr e
officers and two representatives of
each unit, drew up plans to or
ganize the rest Of the newspaper
men in Dayton into the Guild
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
COTTSBORO RALLY PIERCES MISSISSIPPI JMCROW BARRIER
.JObless Win
Right to Visit
Jailed Leader
Councils Lead Fight
Against Renewed
Police Terror

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. ala
delegation Of eleven workers today
visited the Blawnox Workhouse to
demand that Phil Frankfeld, IN
employment Council leader, now
serving a two-to-four year term
there, be recognized as a political
prisoner, with the right to receive
any publications or literature which
he desires and to be visited at least
once a week by his wife and infant
son.
The committee requested they be
allowed to meet Frsnkfeld, but were
refused permission by Warden
Braun, at first on the grounds that
"the laws of the state" prohibit such
visits. Later. however, Braun ad-
mitted that he is allowed consider
able leeway in deciding questions of
that nature.
He declared that he would not
bar the door to Frsnkfelds wife and
child" and promised to admit work
ing class literature or publications
to the prisoner if they met with Of
fetal approval. Frankfeld now re-
ceives the Daily Worker on condi-
ton that he hands it back to the
jailor after reading it.
Has Lost 80 Pounds
Braun was informed that Frank
field had already lost 80 pounds in
the dust-infeSted rag shop of the
workhouse and the committee de-
manded that he be removed to a
position less detrimental to his
health.
Braun agreed TO do this if IAN
examination by the jail's physician
showed he needs to be moved"
In an interview lasting over an
hour, the committees questions
brought out the position toward the
working class of a Jail warden who
was once an A. F. of L. leader.
Braun was once an official of the
Brotherhood of Painters, and didn't
approve" Of the falling of fellow
unionists, but now, as he puts it,
We'll, one changes with ones vo-
cations" Whether it is a change
from former views or not, Braun
stated today that he stands for the
protection of private property rights
above human rights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
Shoe Workers Demand
Cash on Relief Job S

HAVERHILL, Mass, Dec. 21.-
Grocers are charging 20 to 40 per
cent more on orders furnished to
the unemployed than to others,
David S. Bancroft of the Unem-
ployment Council of the United
Shoe and Leather Workers Union
charged before a meeting of the
Welfare Board. Bancroft demanded
that the workers on relief should
receive cash instead of scrip, and
that arguments to the effect that
the unemployed were irresponsible
and not fit to handle money were
put forward by the welfare depart
ment simply to give moral justifi-
cation to their relief slashing star
va.ion plans,
Workers on relief here are sup
posedly free to choose the grocer
they wish to patronize. Bancroft
explained to the Board of Public
Welfare that some grocers give the
unemployed credit beyond the value
of the scrip they present, and that
then the unemployed are obliged to
trade only with the one store.
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ment figures such as these are I'M
precedented, and in view of the
mass suffering which will be wide
spread this winter, leaders of the
united front of Socialists and Com
munists are already warning that
the reactionary Flandin administra-
ton will attempt to utilize some fas-
cist scheme of militarizing the great
numbers of the unemployed similar
to the C.C.C. camps in the United
States under Roosevelt.
AS an indirect but certain bar
ometer of the wage-cuts now being
effected all over France may be
taken the fact that while retail
prices have dropped five per cent
the cost of living fell only one per
cent.
The industrial production index
is pursuing steady downward
trend, even in the war industries.
Bankruptcies have reached an all
time record and carloadings have
declined sharply.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
NeWsPapern1en
Win Demands
For More Paw
Cleveland News Signs
Contract With the
Guild Local

CLEVELAND, o., Dec. 21.-The
Cleveland Local of the American
Newspaper Guild yesterday signed
one-year contract with the Cleve-
land News, covering 100 editorial
workers as well as Office boys and
apprentices. which provides for
union conditions.
Reporters, editorial writer's, re-
write men, copy readers and photog-
raphers of four years and more ex-
perience are to be paid a minimum
of $4,000 a week. Those receiving
between $4,000 and $4,000 week
prior to December Is will receive a
10 per cent increase. A 40-hour, five
day week is guaranteed. Any en-
ployee who has been with the paper
for more than nine years is to re-
ceiye three months wages in sd-
vance.
The contract is considered an inn
portant victory in the Guilds fight
to force the newspaper publishers
to grant union conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
Pittsburgh Mine Local
Joins LID. i'm a Body
Rally in washington

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 21.-The
Export Local of the United Mine
Workers, No. STAT, voted unani-
mously to join the International
Labor Defense in a body, last Sat-
urday.
Carl Hacker, district organizer of
the I. L. D., was invited to speak to
the local, which has a membership
of more than 400. and the decision
was made following his talk on the
necessity of setting up an adequate
defense apparatus in the local as
part of the mass defense movement
of the I. L. D. Over 200 members
werer present.
The U. M. W. local in Westmore-
land City has also invited Hacker
to speak on defense at their next
meeting.
The Export local has already en-
dorsed the National Congress for
Unemployment insurance and elect
ed a delegate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
.JObIess March
FOrCashRent
In Cleveland

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. III
With foreclosures and evictions by
the thousands scheduled for jan
uary, Mayor Davis and Safety Di-
rector Layelle, at the request of a
delegation of Is bankers and insur-
ance company representatives head
ed by c. w. Shimmon of the New
York Life Insurance Co. promised
a reign Of police terror against
those resisting evictions. The I'm
employment Council and the Small
Home and Landowners Federation
are modifying their forces for cash
rent and to prevent all eYictions
and foreclosures.
LaVelle told the committee Of
bankers that he would issue orders
to the police to prevent meetings
before the homes of those evicted
and arrest all who try to interfere
with the evictions.
Complaining about the fact that
the Unemployment Council and
small home owners in many in
stances prevented evictions and re-
peatedly moved back evicted ten
ants or small homeowners, many
banks have applied for injunctions
to stop the moving back of the in
tended victims furniture.
The Unemployment Councils and
home owners plan emergency meet
ings to counterfeit this new ma
neuver for wholesale evictions and
will make this question of stopping
all evictions and foreclosures one
of their central demands in tomor-
rows city-wide mass relief march.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
HiHSbOrO Miners Open
Mass Fight to abolish
Illinois Anti-Red Law
Repeal of Criminal Syndicalism Law Is De-
manded In Resolution Passed By Local
OfProgressive Miners of America

HILLSBORO, Ill, Dec. 21.-The
trial of the IA leaders of the strug-
giles of the unemployed in Mont
gomery County is set for Jan. 7.
Among those who are charged with
violation of the Criminal Syndicalist
Law are members of the Village
Board of Taylor Springs, members
of the Progressive Miners of Amer
lea, Communist Party, Unemploy-
ment Councils, International Labor
Defense, and one member of the
Young Peoples Socialist League.
This trial aroused the miners and
other workers throughout the state
Of Illinois, especially members of
the Progressive Miners of America,
who are passing resolutions de-
handing the repeal of the criminal
Syndicalist law and the quashing of
the charges against the arrested
leaders of the workers. Local AZ of
the P. M. A. in Hillsboro, at a re-
cent meeting, adopted the follow
ing resolution:
whereas. The Progressive Miners
of America, at their Second Consti-
tutional Convention held in Giles
pie, Illinois, on Sept. II, 1884,
adopted a resolution for the repeal
of the Criminal Syndicalism Law;
and,
Whereas: State Senator James
Monroe of Collinsville, Illinois, is
going to introduce a bill in the next
General Assembly for the repeal of
the Criminal Syndicalism Law; and,
whereas: AS result of the
struggles of the unemployed and
part time workers of Montgomery
County in an effort to secure
higher standard of relief for them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
Unemployment Shows
Sharp Rise in France
AS Wages Are Slashed

PARIS, Dec. 21.-The rise of I'M
employment in France continues at
an accelerated pace while the gen.
eral economic situation among the
workers is becoming worse.
Unemployment statistics just is
sued, covering the week ending last
Saturday, show a rise of 1858 over
the previous week and 1929 over
the corresponding week in 1888.
The government figures of those
totally unemployed is registered as
384,841. but it is generally agreed,
even by conservative authorities,
that the actual total is about four
times the official figure, i.e., $500, 1000.
Reliable observers here expect un-
employment to reach 100000 by
the end of February. Unemploy-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22

tough breaks" Harry L. Hopkins,
Federal Emergency Relief Admins
traitor, declared today at his regular
weekly press conference.
Obviously, Hopkins dispatchins
of yuletide sentiments. in the midst
Of the big Observation-Disclosures
wage cutting campaign and shortly
after his own order eliminating the
30 cents an hour minimum on work
relief jobs, to the unemployed heads
of families whose numbers have in
creased more than a million since
last year, is merely a sample Of the
political puff which appears so
regularly in speeches written for
Jim Farley.
Hopkins took issue with the vague
reports stating that the leading
bankers and business men now favor
direct rather than work relief Al
though he didn't know whether the
bankers plan proposed to give less
direct relief than the $40 a month
national average for a family, Of
four and a fraction people, Hopkins
agreed with a reporter that direct
relief would set up a class opposed
to work"
He FASTENED to add however, that
the unemployed don't like TO get
relief"
There is every reason to believe
that the conferences to be held in
the near future between the rep-
resentatives of the bankers and
business men and the White House
will come to a conclusion on the re-
lief program satisfactory to big
business.
Hopkins. in referring to the bank
ers who have just returned from
White Sulphur Springs, declared:
Apparently these people think that
the only thing the Federal govern
ment should do is to loan govern
ment funds to the railroads" How
his Federal program differs fun
damentally from that of the bankers
Hopkins did not say
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
AL Leader
In Cleveland
Dies at Home
By the Daily Worker Ohio Bureau)

(By the Daily Worker Ohio Bureau)
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. I'll
T. S. Farrell, Sc, reactIonary secretary
of the Cleveland Federation of La
Dor, implacable enemy of the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill,
and staunch supporters of Mayor
Harry L. Davis frankly anti-labor
administration, died on Wednesday
in his residence in Shaker Heights.
Shaker Heights is a high class
residential district. One of Farrels
last official acts was to write state
ment of his opposition to the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill.
One of the staunchest supporters
of Mayor Davis, Farrell had a long
record of opposing every militant
move threatening the interest of
the employers and tending to i'm
prove the interests of the working
class. He gave unconditional sup
port to every reactionary move of
the A. F. of L. bureaucracy as a
personal friend and close intimate of
both the late Samuel Gompers and
William Green.
He became an official member of
the Davis cabinet in 1916 as City
utilities director which post he later
changed to one on the Board of
Election till the entire Board of
Election was ousted for fraud by the
Secretary of State in 1928.
The day before his death he sent
a letter to the Washington Con-
gress Ohio Sponsoring Committee
in which, basing himself on Green's
edict, he categorically and sarcas-
tically refused any further letter
writing marathon" on the subject
of. the Workers Bill. His letter IN
full follows:
Mr. Frank Rogers,
942 Prospect Ave.
RIM 469 x, Cleveland, Ohio.
Dear Sir
In replying to yours of the 18th,
without desiring to discuss in detail
the merits of the Unemployment
Insurance Plan, am herewith en-
closing copy of letter received from
the American Federation of Labor
in connection with their attitude
towards the National Congress for
Unemployment Insurance which I
think is self explanatory and will
avoid you and I getting into any
letter writing marathon.
Yours respectfully
(SigneO THOMAS S. FARREL.
SECRETARY Cleveland Federation
of Labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
Sugar Company Plant
Barred To Executives
By Strike Pickets

BILLINGS, Mont, Dec. 81. In
their determination to keep the
plant of the Great Western Sugar
Company here shut tight, striking
workers announced yesterday that
from now on neither the plants
firemen nor any of the companys
executives would be permitted to
enter the refinery.
The workers have been on strike
two weeks, demanding ten-cent
an hour increase, union shop and
the increased wages must begin from
last October 2.
I'VE have withdrawn the con-
ceSsion we have made of letting the
flremen remain on the job and we
intend to shut the plant down
tight" the strikers said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22

The Daily Worker is the best
collective organizer among the
workers for better living con-
ditions, adequate winter relief,
against lay-offs, wage-cuts and
stretchout. An increased circu-
lation will insure more widespread
struggles for these demands. Get
your friends, your shopmates, to
read the Daily Worker regularly!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22

selves and their families, fourteen
workers, five of whom are Progress
siye Miners, have been arrested and
are to be tried in January under
the Criminal Syndicalism Law;
therefore, be it
Resolved: That Local Union No.
AZ, P. M. of A., Hillsboro, Ill, goes
on record asking for the repeal of
the Criminal Syndicalism Law and
for the quashing of the charges
against those arrested under this
law; and be it further
Resolved: That a copy of this
Resolution be sent to George Hall
States Attorney, Hillsboro Ill, and
to the Editor of the Progressive
Miner.
"(SEAL) ALBERT HALEY. Pres.
TED CRIHFIELD,
Rec. Sec, L. U. No. AZ,
P. M. Of A., Hillsboro,
Illinois" .5t
Similar resolutions have been
adopted by a number of other locals
among them local union of the P.
M. A. No. Is Of Springfield, ILL.,; Lo-
cal Union No. 10 of Stsunton, H.;
and Local Union No. 80 of Farming
ton, Ill.
The International Labor Defense.
which leads the defense, appeals to
all working class organizations
throughout the State of Illinois to
adopt similar resolutions, and send
them to George Hall, States Attor-
ney, Hillsboro, ILL.,, and to Governor
Horner, Springfield, Ill. All funds
for the defense should be forwarded
to the Chicago Office of the Inter-
national Labor Defense, 1703 w
Madison ST., Chicago, Ill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
81 Blast Furnaces
Closed in Germany

BERLIN, Dec. 21.-The worlds
records attained by Soviet metal
lurgy disclosed in recent statistics
published there stand out by con-
trast with the frozen blast furnaces
and the general retrogression of
metallurgy in fascist Germany.
The number of blast furnaces in
the Reich are as follows: 1872 blast
furnaces in 1929, as against 148 at
the end of 1884; "a abandoned or
scrapped. The figures for the
United States are: 354 blast fur
naces in 1929; 262 at the beginning
of 1884; 90 abandoned or destroyed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
WHITE AND NEGRO
WORKERS PROTEST
FRAME-UP OF BOYS
Mass Meetings in Pennsylvania and Delaware
Pledge Support to LL.D.-Civil Liberties
Endorses Legal Defense Action

OXFORD Miss, Dec. 21.-Smashing through the jim
edcts of the Mississippi white rulers $50 Negro and
white workers and troopers held Sotsboro protest rally
here and adopted resolution protesting the rameup of the
boys and demanding their unconditional release Representa-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22

NAILS ROUND UP SAAR VOTES
TIENTSIN, China, Dec. 21.-The
Chekiai Agency communicates that
numbers of Germans of Saar origin
who have been living for several
years in China have left for Europe
in order to take part in the pleb-
iscite of Jan. 10.