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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
Lasting Unity
Pledged By 50
Organizations
S O cialist Party Backs
ParIey-UMWA Locals
Represented
CpaiIy worker OHIO Bureaul

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. IA
Forming a permanent delegated
body to carry on the struggle for
relief and the enactment Of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill, the Unemployment Insurance
Conference in Bellaire, Ohio, last
Sunday decided to send Is delegates
to the National Congress for IN
employment Insurance to be held
in Washington on Jan. 5, and T..
In spite of the deep snow and
heavy storm 148 delegates braved
the hazards of the treacherous
mountain roads of East Ohio and
West Virginia to participate in the
conference called by the Elm Grove
Unemployed League, Locals 926 and
3917 of the United Mine Workers
of America, the Polish National AL
lance Group No. 1904, Interna-
tional Workers Order branches and
other organizations in Bellaire and
Shadyside.
The delegates officially represent
ed So organizations from 81 cities
in East Ohio and West Virginia.
including 16 United Mine Workers
Of America locals, two branches of
the Eagles, one branch of the For
esters and one of the Elks, three
Unemployed Leagues and many IN
employment Councils, International
Workers Order branches and other
fraternal organizations. The So
cialist Party and the Communist
Party were also officially repre-
scented.
Matusik, miner, was elected
chairman, and Stark, Negro miner
representing Local 459 of the United
Mine Workers of America in Laugh
erty, Ohio, was elected vice-chair-
man. For secretary Rose Podmaka
was elected.
Tremendous e n h u S S m was
manifested at the conference for
the Workers Unemployment and So
cial Insurance Bill. The delegates,
representing a total membership of
$1,000 miners and workers in other
industries, one after the other
voiced their determination to carry
on the fight until the Bill is passed.
Besides sending Is delegates to
the Washington Congress, the con-
ference decided to form a perma-
nent delegated body to carry on the
struggle for relief for the miners
and steel workers in that region.
The question Of the relief is very
acute in East Ohio where the max
imum relief for families is $14 per
month, with the majority getting
much less than that.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
5 Go to Jail in Chicago
As Thaelmann Pickets

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Dec. 13.-Arrested
last summer for picketing the Ger
man Consulate with banners de-
manding the freedom of Ernst
Thaelmann, five workers were given
Jail sentences yesterday when they
refused to pay fines imposed upon
them by Judge Jonas.
A jury in Municipal Court found
them guilty of disorder1y conduct
despite plea by the International
Labor Defense of the lawful right
to picket. Police have arrested every
worker who has attempted to picket
the German Consulate on Michigan
Avenue. and have prevented all
demonstrations by surrounding the
building with cops.
Those who are serving sentences
are Max Shain. Olga Lednicki.
Helen Smith, Claude Jones and
Benny Nick, all young workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
Rank and File A.. L. Steel Workers Fight
For the Rights of Negroes in Mill and Union

and file is launching a drive for
the organization of the morgan
lied steel workers. Right from the
beginning, the rank and file in the
A. A. makes it clear to the Negro
steel workers that an important and
basic part of the rank and file pro-
gram is fight for all the demands
of the Negro steel workers. The
rank and file in the A. A. fights
against the Jim Grow; demands an
end of discrimination against Negro
workers in the mills in the giving
out of jobs, and equal pay for equal
work for the Negro steel workers.
The last convention of the A. F.
of I. overruled the will of the rank
and file delegates and the machine
of William Green referred a reso-
luton for equal rights for the
Negroes in the unions to the Ex-
ecutive Committee for action. The
speeches of the Green henchmen
defended the Jim Grow and discrim-
ination practiced in some A. F. of
l.. unions. The rank and file in the
A. A. must and will make it clear
to the steel workers that they are
determined to bring to an end for
all time the Mike Tighe policy of
discrimination against Negroe
within the union.
The campaign of the rank and
file to organize the unorganized
steel workers will succeed only on
the oasis of bringing in the Negro
steel workers together with their
white brothers to prepare strikes
and other struggles on the basis of
complete solidarity, and to fight for
the rights of the Negro steel work.
era
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
Blind andAged
Cut Off Relief
In Clev Gland
Sweeping Slash Aimed
To Bludgeon Through
New Taxation
By Daily Worker Ohio Bureau

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. IA
Seven blind men were refused re-
lief and all future tubercular, in
sane and INDECENT hospital patients
would be turned down, according to
a recent decision Of the Cuyahoga
County Commissioners. With the As
mills additional tax levy over
whelmingly defeated at the last
elections the commissioners intend
to railroad it through at the March
special elections by playing politics
with the sufferings Of the needy.
Claiming that statutory relief OBJ
legations in 1894 exceeded estimates
by $550,000 and an anticipated def
cit Of $6,000,000 for the coming
year, James A. Reynold, president of
the Board of County Commission
ers, declared that: I'VE can't ap-
prove any more relief applications
until we see our way clear for 1885.
To force through the As mills real
estate tax-levy, throwing additional
burdens on the small home Owners
1t is even contemplated to throw
the seven hundred children at pres
ent under care of the County Child
Welfare Board on the streets &C
cording to the admission of William
7. Lacy, assistant director of the
Welfare Federation.
Seven new applications of blind
people investigated and approved
we're turned down by the Board OF
County Commissioners:
"They should have the money,
admitted James A. Reynold, chair
man of the County Commissioners
"but it would be foolish to grant
these new requests, when after the
first of the year, the 400 blind cases
now on pension will be cut off,"
The blind are receiving SIS g
month on the average.
Only half of the $S,000,000 APP
propriated for old age pensions will
be paid out, M. L. Brown, chief OF
the Division of Aid for the Aged
announced at Columbus. In Cuya-
hoga County only about $500 of the
$4,000 applications will be taken care
of.
The Unemployment Councils anc
the Small Home Owners are organ
izing a gigantic City Wide Relief
March for Saturday, Dec. %, start
ing at l pm. on Public Square, to
demand emergency cash relief, to
protest against the suspension OF
welfare services, and for increased
cash relief for all unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
BY C RI r EEV E

day. My own wage, at present, is
1887 a day and work from one to
four days week. There are about
two hundred Negro workers in the
Thompson plants which employ a
total Of about 1000 workers. There
are very few Negroes in the higher
paid and more skilled jobs, this
worker declared.
THE minister of the Negro Bap-
fist Church gave a sermon a few
Sundays ago on the subject of the
problems of the Negro steel work
ers. He had a conference with Slick,
the Thompson mill superintendent,
before his sermon" another Negro
steel worker told me. THE minister
told the Negro steel workers to keep
out of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton. He told them that no Negro
steel worker should go on strike or
join the union. He used the argu-
ment that in the 1919 steel strike
the Negroes got nothing out of the
union or out of the strike, as ar.
argument against the union and
against going on strike. A little later
the Negro Methodist preacher made
the same kind of sermon"
What the Amalgamated Associa-
ton officials did to the Negro work
ers in Braddock in the 1919 steel
strike and why some of them stayed
a + Iuork tx,oc roIofod ovy etil1 op0fha,.
Negro worker who was working in
the rod and wire mill here (of the
American Steel and Wire Coz dur
ing 1919, with about forty other
Negro workers. I'VE went to some
of the meetings of the Amalga-
mated Association before the
STRIKE" he said. In some OF these
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15

meetings there was no English
spoken. One meeting we went to
we heard an A. A. official declare
that too many Negroes we're given
good jobs He said that the Negro
should be put back on common la
Dor only. and give them the jobs
The A. A. leaders didn't make any
attempt to organize us. We de-
cided to stay at work when the
strike was called. We went through
the picket line to work every morn
ing"
Ordered from Hall
Then we saw that these fellows
on the picket line couldn't win if we
stayed at work strikebreaking. We
talked it over in the mill and de-
cided to march out on strike. We
marched in body to the A. A. hall
We told the A. A. official there that
we had come to join the strike and
the union. This A. A. official or
dered us out of the hall. He told
us they didn't want Negroes. We
argued with him that we wanted to
help win the strike. He told us to
get out. We then marched back into
the mill and went on strikebreak-
ing"
Now the Negro steel workers can
see force in the Amalgamated As
ISOLATION, the rank and file, which
represents not the Jim Grow pol
icies of Mike Tighe, but the policy
of unity, solidarity, of fight for the
rights of the Negro steel workers,
such as William z. Foster and other
militant organizers tried to effect
in the 1919 steel strike.
AT this time, with it's rank and
file organization committees the rank
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
C.P. Is Given
Custer Order
In Cleveland
Eviction Notice Follows
Public Hearing on
Civil Rights
BY SANDOR VOROS
DAILY Worker Ohio Buresul

CLEVELAND, o., Dec. 1.-THE
drive initiated by Mayor Davis
against the Communist Party was
given momentum when the Com
munist Party District Office re-
ceiyed notice from Steelar and Co.,
renting agents, to move out of the
building by January LIST. The notice
followed Immediately the Public
Hearing on Civil Rights held last
Monday when speakers of the Com
munist Party challenged Mayor
Davis plan to remove the free
speech rostrum from Public Square
Following the mayors public
threats that received full backing
by the American Legion and the
Joint Veterans Association and his
announced intention of forming
gangs to flight Communism" GER
tain tenants of the building, occu-
pied by the District Offices of the
Communist Party, 1914 Prospect
Avenue demanded Of the man.
agement the eviction of the Com.
munist Party Headquarters.
Needless to say the management
closely affiliated with the Cleveland
Trust Co., was eager to carry out
the wishes of some of these tenants
The gentleman doing business fol
the "Marchant Calculating Machine
Co." while refusing to give his name
was frank in admitting that hi
doesn't like to have the Commu-
nists around. Pressed for reasons
he finally blurted out the aston
ishing economic discovery that the
crisis is due to Communist agita.
ton" and prosperity will not come
back until this agitation is stopped
The Communist Party is going tt
fight stubbornly every move of the
Davis machine against the revolu.
| tionary movement in Cleveland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15

BRADDOCK, Pa, Dec. 14.-One
Of the important rank and file mo-
tions adopted by the Pittsburgh dis
trict convention of the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron. Steel and
Tin Workers CA. F. of ID was for
the election of rank and file organ
ization committees to organize the
unorganized. The campaign for or
ganization Of the unorganized Negro
steel workers into the A. A. requires
particular attention.
The steel companies have taken
energetic steps to keep the white
and Negro steel workers divided.
They have tried especially hard to
keep the Negro steel workers from
organizing. In this attempt to keep
the workers split, the employers
have been aided by the Jim Grow
policies of Mike Tighe, president of
the A. A., and his machine for over
score of years.
Negroes Were Barred
There was marked absence of
Negro steel workers at the last
A. A. national convention. The
leadership of Mike Tighe has dis
eliminated against and barred Ne
groes from Joining or from partici-
patton in the union. Tt was only
the Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union, and in recent
months, the rank and file movement
in the A. A., which carried on a
struggle for the rights of the Ne
gro steel workers.
IT have never seen a Negro roller
in a steel MILL" one Negro steel
worker from the great Thompson
rail mill here, told me. "A roller
makes from nine to ten dollars a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
Unemployed Workers
To Protest Terrorism

CANNONSBERG, Pa, Dec. IA
meeting to protest the anti-red ac-
tivities of Chief of Police Adds and
his thugs, will take place here at
the Unemployment Council Hall, at
2 p. m, Sunday.
The drive against militant work
ers under the leadership of the chief
of police has reached new level
with the breaking up of an Unem-
ployment Council meeting last Sun
day afternoon, and the arrest of
Elmer French, leader of the I'M
employed workers here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
Cleveland Police Attack
Striking Charwoman

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 14.-Po-
lice this morning attacked and dis
persed striking charwomen picket
ing the Terminal Tower and Mid
land Bank Building.
The women organized into the
Building Maintenance Industrial
Union Of the I. w. W., are striking
for the reduction of their present
48-hour week to 36 hours with the
present wages maintained.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
ID. Ar. Seeks
To Block Talk
By Mike Gold
Tear Gas Threatened By
Cincinnati Patriots
to Stop Lecture
BULLETIN
Especial to the Daily WORKER

| Especial to the Daily WoRker)
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. a.
Hamilton County Commissioners
yesterday voted wo-to-One to
deny the use Of Memorial Hall to
the Pen and Hammer Club for
an address next Monday by
Michael Gold.
The Pen and Hammer is NOV
ing to file injunction proceedings
to prevent abrOgatiOn of their
contract for the hall, and has
also called for protests to the
County Commissioners.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. IA
yelled threat to use tear gas to dis
rupt the meeting at which Michael
Gold will lecture here on Monday
on 1.-THE Crisis in Literature" was
made by Alfred Gus Karger, re-
serve officer and chairman of the
American True Facts Committee at
a meeting of the Hamilton County
Commissioners today.
Karger had appeared before the
Commissioners together with repre-
sentatiVes of the OAR. and other
so-called patriotic" organizations
to protest the use of Memorial Hall
Grant and Elm Streets, by the Pen
and Hammer Club which is spon-
soring Colds lecture in Cincinnati.
One Of the grounds on which
Karger opposed Pen and Hammers
use of the hall was the likelihood
of trouble. There will be nc
trouble" David Leyison, secretary
OF Pen and Hammer, assured the
County Commissioners, unless
Karger uses the tear-gas bombs we
know he has in his possession"
Have you got tear-gas bombs?
a reporter then asked Karger.
"Youre-right, we've got them
and we can use them, too" Kargel
answered.
This admission confirmed the re.
suits of an investigation made BY
Pen and Hammers secretary O
preparations being made by reac
tionary groups to enter upon 1
campaign of violence and intimida.
ton against labor, liberal and rad
ical groups.
Karger charged that Pen anC
Hammer was Communist organi.
zation and that he had been threat
ened by the Communists who, hi
said, we're bloody reyolutionists
and were not recognized as a polit.
ical party.
Karger's attack against Mike
Gold and the Pen and Hammer
Club was seconded by Mrs. Lowell
Hobart, National Defense chairman
of the OAR. who said that her or.
ganization believes in free speech
but not in its abuse"
The protesters at today's meeting
Of the commissioners are the same
group that conducted a violen
campaign against the use of Stove
School by the Communist Part,
during the election campaign ant
against its use by the Internationa
Labor Defense for a Herndon.
Scottsboro meeting in October.
They were defeated then. as the!
will be defeated now, by the mas
pressure of indignant Cincinnati
workers and intellectuals, aroused
by the growing attempts at fascis
suppression of free speech and as
sembly.
AS a result of the Karger-D.A.R
fight against use of the hall, tire
mendous turnout is expected t.
greet Gold when he speaks in Gin
cinnati on Monday evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
Textile Delegates
Vote To GiUe Support
To Surety Congress
K e pres entatives OF
Locals Open Drive
On the Blacklist

TAFTVILLE, Conn.-Fifby dele
gates, representing locals of the
United Textile Workers in Con-
hecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode
Island, we're present here Sunday
afternoon at the conference called
by the Interstate Anti-Stretchout
and Anti-Discrimination Council of
the United Textile Workers.
The purpose OF the conference
was to extend the fight TO force
millownerS in New England to re-
instate former strikers without dis
elimination, and for the elimination
of the Stretchout evil, which in
creases the number of machines for
those workers who were taken back
after the recent strike.
Hundreds BIacklisted
Delegates reported that in every
mill town there are hundreds who
are refused jobs because they are
known to be members Of the union,
or to have taken an active part in
the strike. They reported that there
is a general sentiment to restrike.
BY unanimous vote, resOlMaiOn
was adopted calling upon every
u. T. w. local to elect delegates
to the Washington Congress for
Unemployment Insurance to take
place on Jan. to I, and that
these same delegates should like
wise see the International Off
Gals of the U. T. w. and the Ma
tiOnaI Textile Labor Relations
Board to demand immediate ac-
ton on the depIorable situation
for the workers in the industry.
A second resolution called for all
locals Of the U. T. w. which have
not yet affiliated with the Inter
state Council, to do so. There are
40 locals now affiliated with the
Council.
An attempt to interfere with the
work of the Council was made by
Dern, president of the Connecticut
State Federation of Labor, who is
also an organizer for the U. T. w.
He stated that the textile workers
have nothing against the employ
ers; that the workers are fighting
each other, and the general strike
was lost because too many workers
scabbed. This antagonized the del.
egates, and he was showered with
questions, but declined to give any
answers.
WeinStock Speaks
Dern was followed by Louis Vein
stock, National Secretary of the A
F. of L. Committee for Unemploy-
ment Insurance, who was invited
to speak at the conference. Vein
stock quoted from the speech Of
Francis German, made at the re-
cent national convention of the A
F. Of L. He told the workers thai
the conditions described by then
are considered by German as tn,
greatest victory in the history Of
tne American labor movement"
In the midst of Weinstock'.
speech, Dern jumped to his feet
shouted that Weinstock is a Com.
munist and proceeded to walk out
But his exit was blocked by work.
ers at the door who told him
"Weinstock listened to your speech
Now you'll listen to him." He wa.
forced to remain, although at the
first opportunity he sneaked out
The workers received Weinstock'
speech with full approval, anc
passed motion to apologize for tbs
"unbecoming action Of their Presi
dent of the State Federation"
Another conference is scheduled
for Dec. %.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
WHAT'S ON
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.

Lecture by Louis Weinstock, National
Secretary A. F. of L. Trade Union
Comm. for Unemployment Insurance
on THE Two A. F. of L. Conven-
tions," Sunday, Dec. 16, p. m. at
1913 s. 9th St., 3rd floor.
Canton Commune Commemoration,
Saturday. Dec. Is at pm. at Girard
Manor, Oil w. Girard Ave. Speakers:
Hansu Chan, editor China Today;
Mother Bloor; also Workers Mandolin
Orchestra, Workers Chorus and Play
by Nature Friends. Commemoration
Event under auspices of LID. Adm.
Csc. Tickets at the door,
Film and Photo League of Phila
presents Eisenstein's masterpiece
"Potemkin" also Dredging Canoe
Rhythm; Littoral-Film Sketch; Tom
Mooney; Cannon Fodder Sunday
Dec. 16, three shows: 7, 9, IL pm
at Federation Building, 1905 Walnut
st. Adm. Csc.
Philadelphia District LID Conven-
ton Saturday, Dec 15 starting at
pm, Sunday, Dec. is, starting at
10 am. at 1898 Girard Ave. See that
your organization is represented
Anna Damon, acting national organi-
rational secretary, will report.
Grand opening dance at Park Manor
Hall, 32nd 81 Montgomery, Saturday,
Dec Is, $3.50 p. m. Auspices: Park
Manor Workers Club Come and
celebrate at our splendid new head
quarters.
House party celebrating Official open
ing OF F. S. u. Headquarters and
Return Of Delegate from U. S. s. R.
Saturday. Dec. Is, 8 p. m. at 1875
8. Eighth st. Auspices: F. S. U.
Subscription 15c.
Corliss Lamont will lecture on 'The
Soviet Union and Religion" Friday
Dec. 81, p. m. at Musicians Hail.
100 N. 18th st. Admission SOC at
door,.
Paterson
Lecture by DR.. S. Littman on Health
Of the Worker" Sunday. Dec. 16, $50
pm. at junior Order Hall, Union and
Smith SITS.
Rockford, III.
Lecture at s.Ms.F. Hall. 1919 Third
Ave, Sunday, Dec. IS, 2:30 pm. Sub
ject: will Communism Bring Hap
piness to Humanity" Speaker: A..
Henderson of Chicago. Adm, en-
ployed 1oc. Unemployed Sc.
Chicago, I'LL.
Symposium Fascist Trends In Middle
Glass and Trade Unions" Sunday
evening, Dec. is. pm. at Pen and
Hammer Forum, 20 E. Ontario ST.
Speakers: Harry Shaw, editor Rail-
road Unity News. and Joseph Edel-
man, Chicago Comm. to Aid Vic
tins of German Fascism. Adm. 15c.
Baltimore, Md.
Northwest Unit of YC.L. is holding
series Of Open Forums at their
headquarters, 1908 McCullsn Street,
Sundays at 3 pm. starting next
Sunday Dec. 16. Leonard Patterson
will speak on why Cheltenham
Must Be Abolished"
Boston, Mass.
Chinese Night to Celebrate 7th An
niversary of Canton Commune Sum
day, Dec. 16. at New International
Hall, AZ Wenonah ST., Roxbury, Mass
Chop Suey. Chow Mein Supper, 8
pm. sharp. Chinese Music Enter
tainment Editor Hsu of Vanguard
will speak on Canton Commune and
Red Army" Subs. 35c. Auspices,
Chinese Br. and John Reed BIZ. LID.
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AFFAIRS FOR THE
DAILY WORKER
Columbus, Ohio

Dance and Entertainment for Work
ers' Press-Daily Worker. Vi Elore
and enthusiastically, Dec. Is at
8 p. m. at Ivanoff Hall, 1894 So.
Parsons Ave. Adm. 25c.
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st. Paul, MINI.

Dance and Entertainment given by
Unit at ST. Paul Labor Lyceum. 81
e. 18th ST., Sat, Dec. is. Adm. 10c.
Party and Entertainment. Sat. Dec.
Is. al 439 Iglehart Ave. Given by
Unit 2, @. P.
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Rockford, III.

Lecture at S.M.S.F. Hall. 1919 Third
Ave, Sunday, Dec. IS, 2:30 pm. Sub
ject: will Communism Bring Hap
piness to Humanity" Speaker: A.
Henderson of Chicago. Adm, en-
ployed 10c. Unemployed Sc.
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Paterson

Lecture by DR.. S. Littman on He,
of the Worker" Sunday, Dec. Is,
pm. at junior Order Hall, Union
Smith SITS.
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Chicago, III.

Chinese Night to Celebrate 7th An
niversary of Canton Commune Sum
day, Dec. 16. at New International
Hall, AZ Wenonah St., Roxbury, Mass.
Chop Suey. Chow Mein Supper, 8
pm. sharp. Chinese Music. Enter
tainment. Editor Hsu of Vanguard
will speak on Canton Commune and
Red Army" Subs. 35c. Auspices,
Chinese Br. and John Reed BIZ. LID,