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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-09-24

Mr.. and Mrs. q. A. Dahleu, $40
Third st., were hosts for bridge party
given ct their home Saturday eve
ming with guests for four tables. High
score prizes were received BY H. NJ.
Beall and Mrs. G. W. Leifur while
the second high awards went to Mr..
Leifur and to Mrs. Paul Nstland.
Roses and yellow asters were used Is
floral enterprises when luncheon
WAS served 1t the individual tables.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
800 RT Men Break Co.
Union StrongIe Hold;
Win Big Concession
Force Promise of No
Lay-Offs, Rein
state IA

NEW YORK. - Eight hundred
workers of the Interborough Rapid
Transit Company, 148th st. shop,
broke. through the strangle-hold of
the company union which they are
virtually compelled to join and won
an important concession Friday.
They forced the company to prom
Use no more lay-offs. reinstatement
of fourteen men recently discharged
and to consider the demands Of the
rank and file for 44-hour week.
instead of the present one of so
hours.
Copies of the resolution adopted
by the workers in their meeting
Thursday in the Brotherhood Hall
in the Bronx were sent to every
local of the IR.T. company union
in the city.
Frank Moore, chairman of the
company union, represented the
workers when he confronted Assist
ant Manager Doyle of the IR.T.
and acted according to the workers
instructions.
The Rank and File Committee.
which is leading the workers fight
for better conditions, urges the
workers to form their own rank and
file union and to affiliate with the
Transportation Workers Union at
80 East 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
Slash Wages; Fire
10000 New York
C.W.A. Workers
Continued from Page u

(COntanheG from Page II
of absolute need" limited to a
minimum subsistence level"
"The absolute need" is to be
determined on the basis of the in
famous pauper's oath question
naire, listing 402 questions, inquir-
ing into the personal life, the
union affiliation, and the Sem
playable members of the family"
The minimum subsistence leveI'
will be on the Roosevelt basis of
work relief" at wages of S7.2O a
week,
No guarantee is given to those re-
tanned on work relief" that their
JOBS at starvation levels of pay will
be continued after April Both, &C
cording to Col. DeLamater.
Complaining that the city was
in no position to assume respon-
slbility for those to be fired from
G. w. A., Hodson stated on March
IL that under the agreement
with the bankers, the city has
only SS,OOO,O0O month to spend
on relief. . We are going to
nave to go back to a relief wage
and we are only going to be
able to give this to the destitute"
The city pays the Wall Street
banks S127,0O0,0O0 annually by the
bankers agreement. The prin-
cipal banks are the National City
Bank Rockefeller firm, the
Bankers Trust Co. Morgan firm,
and the J. P. Morgan Co.
Even at the peak, c. w. A. did
not provide jobs for the majority
of the 1,250,000 unemployed in New
York City Launched early in
December with the promise that
100000 jobs would be given out in
the city alone, C. w. A., according
to the figures of the administration,
never provided jobs for more than
$1,000.
Since 101, 900 men and women
were taken over directly from the
City Work Bureau and the Home
Relief lists, only $4,000 jobs were
made available. Yet, even this fig
ure was never filled. Immediately
that the peak figure of 10000 on
G. w, A. jobs was reached. firings
began. BY the figures of the State
Employment Bureau, 332.748 work
ers applied for these $4,000 jobs.
Negroes we're singled out for
special discrimination on c. w. A.
Although 80 per cent of the 100000
Negroes in Harlem are unemployed,
only 1885 G. w. A. Jobs we're given
to Negro workers, Edgar S. Hough,
G. W. A. statistician, indicated. In
addition to this, those Negroes given
jobs were in almost every case en-
ployed as laborers at the lowest
category Of pay, jim Crowed on the
job and at the registration offices,
and given jobs farthest from their
homes, such as Bear Mountain and
Arden projects, As miles upstate.
Again using the figures of the G..
w. A., only 987 of the jobs were
given to foreign-born workers, and
only two per cent we're given to
women.
Mayor LaGuardia, when he was
forced to meet with the so dele
gates of the 5000 C. w. A. workers
who demonstrated at City Hall on
Thursday, stated his intention Of
continuing the bankers agreement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
n r. A. Being Reogned Strengthen Methods Breaking
DepOrtFrankBOurd
To France TOm'w
Union Calls for a Mass
Send-Oh

NEW YORK. - When the S. S.
Champlsin leaves New York for
France tomorrow, p noon. from the
foot Of 14th Street. French line. it
will carry away from the ranks Of
the food workers, Frank Bourd,
known to many workers in this city
for his devotion and courage in
scores of struggles.
He was arrested at a mass demon
StratiOn at the Hotel Commodore
during strike led by the Food
Workers Industrial Union, August
1888. After serving Is days on a
oisorderly conduct charge, he was
ordered deported. Bourd's most re-
cent activity has been as an organ
izer in the Hotel and Restaurant
Workers Union Of the F. w. I. U.
Asked how he felt about the
matter he said. Deportation to a
conscious worker doesn't mean
the end of him. I will take my
place in the class struggle of the
country to which I 60" And then
with the quick, sharp, humcur so
characteristic of him, he said, mo
matter how many class conscious
workers the bosses deport, they will
not be able to deport the class
struggle. My deportation should
spur on the struggle and I know
new fighters will take my place in
the ranks"
A statement by the Hotel Union
says:
workers, let us give COM
rade Frank Bourd a real working
class send off by mass rally at the
pier when he leaves. Let him take
with him to France the spirit Of
solidarity and class struggle from
the working-class of the United
States"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02

balance. But not here The team
loved playing before this audience.
They were appreciated. One good
play led to another, All wasn't
in vain. The Al-Stars showed
sportsmanship. As far as they
were concerned, there was no color
line. When some of the boys, al
ready conditioned in the fight
for-blood competitive field of pro-
fessionalism and Collegedon, for
got themselves and pulled of a
dirty play, they'd sometimes real
ize it and laugh about it. After
all, just clean fun, they probably
said. There was no hesitation
about shaking hands.
The Renaissance players told me
that this was one of the few times
they have played a white team
where they were entirely satisfied,
where they were treated as social
equals.
The committee who got together
Ine Al-SIar team naQ q tough Time
refusing some stars who wanted to
play in this game.
IT'S revealing, the way meets diff
fer. It's just different-the way
the Daily News "A. or the Wanna
maker Games are run and the
manner the L.s.U. goes about sports
work.
And for that reason, this revela-
ton process will continue for the
benefit of workers and sportsmen
who never heard of the LS.U.; but
who will be drawn in as more meets
are run off. We can be success
full without catering to the silktops,
diamond rings, stiff shirts and back
less gowns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
Workers Organizations
Urged to C. p. Meet We'd.

NEW YORK-The district COM
mittee of the Communist PARTY
issued call yesterday to all work
ing class organizations to send dele
gates to attend the first conference
Wednesday, 7:90 pm, to prepare for
a f1ve-day May Festival and Bazaar
to be held at the Manhattan Ly-
ceum, May % to 81.
1.-THE recent struggles the Com
muniSt Party has led in New York
have drained all the resources of the
Party to such an extent that it is
absolutely imperative at this mo-
ment to take up seriously the mat
ter of raising a fighting fund for
the Party the call read.
The conference Wednesday will be
held on the second floor of the
Workers Center, IS E. 18th St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
Hospital Workers
TOFight Wage Cuts
Will Protest Today at
City Hall

NEW YORK.-The Nurses and
Hospital Workers League, waging a
determined fight for better condi-
tions among hospital workers, will
send a delegation to Mayor La
Guardia today at 1:3O sharp to force
Commissioner Goldwater to fulfill
promises given them recently, which
have not been fulfilled, for re-
traction of wage cuts on salaries
and better working conditions.
The League is organizing a united
front among all hospital workers.
Their statement reads: ALREADY a
delegation Of nurses under the lead
ership of the Nurses and Hospital
Workers League, by their protest to
Commissioner of Hospitals, and by
developing activities in many of the
large city hospitals, as well as allied
institutions, have resulted in Com
missioner Goldwater's promise to
propose a retraction of the wage cut
on salaries less than S1,140 with
maintenance, and $500 without.
Remember at best this is only
a promise Of a proposal to the
Board Of Estimate, which even the
Commissioner may forget If cur
protests cease. This revised cut is
still unjust. Do not allow the
Commissioner to split our ranks
by such devious means as a
promise"
The N. H. w. L. calls for a mass
delegation to rally at City Hall
today to enforce their demands
against the drastic wage cuts i'm
posed upon them and to enforce the
withdrawal of the entire cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
500 Workers Fired by
transportation Board

NEW YORK-Tn addition to the
400 workers who were discharged on
Saturday, the Board Of Transports
ton will announce indefinite lay
offs" for 100 other employees today,
Among the new group to be fired
will be clerks, stenographers,
These lay-offs are a result of the
reduction of city budget appropria-
tons for the departmental reduc-
ton caused by LaGuardia's policy
of victimizing New York workers to
balance the budget deficit" in order
to insure the payment of $126, 100000
per year to the Wall Street banks
under the terms of the Untermyer
four-year agreement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
Based on S,OOpe-JOhnsOn
Plan, Widely Described
As industrial FaSCiSnt -
9 Arrested at 10th
Street Signwriters'
Strike Picket Meet

NEW YORK-In an attempt to
smash the militant strike Of the
workers at the American Display
Corporation, ATS Tenth Ave, police
attacked the picket line in front OF
the establishment Saturday night
and arrested strikers. Two more
strikers were arrested later in the
Fifty-fourth Street night court
where they had gone to inquire
about their jailed comrades.
The strikers are being held on
trumped-up assault charges. To
protest against the arrests and to
strengthen the strike, the Sign and
Advertising Art Workers Union, 800
Broadway, has called for mass
picket demonstration in front of
the Display Company on Tuesday
morning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02

Continued from Page y
Severing is referring to is the day
he was deposed as President of
Prussia by a handful of Won
Papen's soldiers without his offer
ing the slightest resistance, or max
ing any attempt to use his tremen-
dous power to hold the office to
which he had been elected by a ma
jority Of the working class of Prus-
STA.
This dismissal action of Won
Papen, whom the Socialist leaders
pay to apply, the right to make up
were supporting as "a lesser evil"
against Hitler in 1892, was clearly
signal for advancing German fas-
cism, and was received by the Com
munist Party of Germany with a
call to the Socialist leaders for an
immediate united front for q ma
ton wide general strike. The Com
munist Party offer was spurned and
denounced by Severing and the en-
tire Socialist Party leadership.
1t was this failure of the Social
ist leaders and their refusal of q
united front to resist the Won Papen
usurpations that paved the direct
way for the advance of Hitler. Won
Papen is now a leader in the Hitler
government.
Eagerly seeking 10 prove that
without the Socialist Party leaders
work in crushing the proletarian
uprising led by the Communists in
Germany, Severing makes a sensa-
tional admission that the main goal
of the Socialist leaders in Germany
was always the protection of the
capitalist rule against proletarian
revolution. He says:
NO one can reproach me for
lack of national self-esteem. 1
began my official work in 1919
with a war against the Left rad
ical elements among the German
people. / continued this war in
1920, and during the suppression
of the uprising in Central Ger
many in 1921 nothing was under
taken against the elements of the
Right"
SeVering is here Boosting to the
fascists that he was responsible for
the bloody massacre of thousands
Of German workers who in 1919 at
tempted to set up a Soviet Germany
in place of the capitalist Weimar
Republic" of the Social-Democrat
He also boasts of the fact that he
was lenient and used no armed sup
preston against the monarchist
Kapp putch in 1921, an attempt to
restore the Hohenzollerns. (Another
German Socialist leader, Scheide-
mann, has already written in his
memoirs how the Socialist leaders
we're opposed to the overthrow of
the German monarchy and favored
only limited monarchy.
The Kapp putsch was defeated by
a general strike of the German
working class. The Socialist leaders
did not call any general strikes
against Hitler, and refused all Com
munist Party offers for united front
struggle against Hitler, Severing ex-
plains, because Kapp was mon
archist, whereas Hitler is repub-
lican." And he adds revealingly
this is a difference that the Com
munistS do not understand"
Severing is now receiving a reg
ular pension from the Hitler gov
eminent. Paul Loebe, Leipart, Wells,
and many other Of the leading Ger
man Socialists have either openly
or indirectly given their support to
the Hitler regime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02

handle disputes only; in others
there will be one board for disputes,
another for complaints; in still
others, there will be only one board
handling complaints only.
Blunt Strikebreaknig
The reorganization plan also calls
for a labor policy board" to make
suggestions to MIRA. officials con-
corning wages, hours and other la
Dor matters. On this, labor" (the
A. F. of L. will have one out of
five members. There will be, also,
a trade practices and a code au-
thorities" board within the MIRA.
organization.
They will cooperate in admins
tration, through divisional and as
sistant administrators of the NR.A.
But the real authority, under the
reorganization, will rest in the body
that holds the title = the code au-
thority.
Since the announcement of the
reorganization, virtually every off,
cial announcement dealing with
employer-employee relations has re-
Elected new tone. Formerly, the
most back-breaking decision or rul-
ing was couched in elaborate
phrases about labor's right to bar
gain collectively" etc.
During the past few days, even
this lip service to Justice to labor"
has been strikingly omitted. 1t APP
pears, in short, that MIRA, like the
other New Deal agencies, has de-
cided to substitute further oppres-
sion for demagogy. Apparently the
industrialists, who always have had
the last word, now believe that,
since they put over the auto strike
sell-out, they can put over any
thing. 1t is obvious. however, that
the reorganization will only serve to
further disillusion the working
people concerning the whole MIRA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
; Concentration
DiStS. Hold Meets
Continued from Page y

munist Party of the United States.
Other speakers were James Ashford
and Matte Henderson, a Negro
woman worker. Clyde Smith, sec
rotary of the Michigan Farmers
League, was chairman.
The session of the convention
opened yesterday afternoon with a
main report by John Schmies and
trade union report by Earl Reno.
Both reports analysed serious short
comings during the past year,
stressing right sectarianism as the
chief obstacle to roofing the Party
in the shops and making it the
leader of mass struggles. These re-
ports pointed out the recent progress
made in connection with the strike
situation and emphasized the neces-
sity of building the Auto Workers
Union and the oppositions in the A.
F. Of L. and the M E. S. A. in
order to break the auto workers
away from the misleaders and to
lead them on to the high road of
militant struggle for their demands.
A serious discussion is now taking
place in the convention, with dele
gates from the shops dealing with
practical problems facing them and
showing both the negative aspects
of Party work as well as recent gains
made as result of correct work and
the assistance of the Central Com
nlittee,
William w. Weinstone is to
deliver the report for the Central
Committee this afternoon.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Apr. dis
trict 6 completed an historical con-
vention today in preparation for
the Eighth National Convention of
the Communist Party.
Sixty-eight delegates were pres
ent. Forty-five were shop workers
from concentration industries, such
as steel, metal, railroad, rubber,
mining. Twenty -one represented
that many shop units.
The largest factories and mines
sent delegates: Fisher Body, Otis
Steel, Chase Brass Foundry, Ma
tional Tube of Lorain and Youngs-
town, Massillon Republic Steel,
Goodrich and Firestone Rubber,
PoWhattan Mine and many others.
Forty-two of the delegates were
native born.
Discussion followed an excellent
report by j. Williamson, concretely
outlining tasks of district; II shop
workers then took the floor. They
discussed concrete problems, the or
ganization of workers into revolu-
tionary trade unions, into A. F. of
l.. oppositions, into the Communist
Party. They told of growing strug-
giles, many sabotages by the A. F.
of L., but also of strong opposition
growing, which will take the leader
ship from A. F. of L. betraying bu-
reaucracy.
They reported the tagging of the
Party in struggle, but showed con-
crete plans for overcoming this
shortcoming.
The convention showed that the
whole Party is waking up to shop
work. Every comrade felt a vital
force never before known, a breath
of revolutionary life blown in by the
Communist shop workers, felt that
at last the turn in the Partys work
has been made.
Joseph lack gave the co-report on
trade union work, and Phil Bart, the
co-report on youth work. 1. Amter
for Central Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
GERMAN CHILDREN LACK
SHOES

BERLIN. = Approximately 1000
school children in Karlsruhe, Ba-
den, are without shoes or adequate
winter footwear, according to a
survey of the school authorities.
Forty-two per cent of all children
are undernourished and in dire
need.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
NEW ENGLAND L.S.U. DISTRICT
TO HOLD CAGE TOURNEY

NORWOOD, Mass. The Labor
Sports Union New England district
basketball tournament will be held
April and 7 at the Finnish Hall,
81 Chaple st, in preparation for
the American L,S,U. regional and
national championship to be held in
the middle Of April.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
NeIUGrk Independents
ShObO Solidarity With
N. Y. TGximen Strike

NEW YORK.-The Twentieth
Century Cab Association of New
ark, N. j., an organization of
Independent taxi owners, showed
their solidarity with the striking
cab drivers of New York City
by contributing $3.50 to the strike
fund Of the Taxi Cab Drivers
Union of Greater New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
Decentralization:
Frisco, Evansville
In Protest Actions
(Continued from Page y

ACOhbthNtO JTUHI IUgb
lost time, and free transportation
to and from the job.
Against the new work relief"
plan, which aims to split the work
ers on this project into two groups,
the workers voted at their strike
Friday to report for work in a body
to back up their demands.
A. F. Of L. and Socialist Workers
In March
Many A. F. of L. and Socialist
workers we're in the ranks of the
marchers. Twelve A. F. of L. locals,
and nine locals Of the Socialist LED
Workers Committee on Unemploy-
ment endorsed the march and mo-
bilized their membership.
The parade started from Union
Park at Ogden Avenue and Ran
dolph St. long before the scheduled
time Of 1918 AM. Negro and white
workers were massed on the streets,
and many children, modified by
the Young Pioneers, were among the
first arrivals.
In addition to the twelve A. F.
of L. locals in the march, the Bak-
ers District Council. composed of
five locals, endorsed the march. All
locals had been urged to come with
their union banners.
5000 Demonstrate at San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO. Calf, April 1.
More than 5000 workers, repre-
senting As working class organiza-
tons, including A. p. of L. locals,
marching from six points of the
city, converged on the Civic Center
here Saturday, demanding continu-
alton and extension of C.W.A. The
workers demanded C.W.A. jobs for
all unemployed at union wages, i'm
mediate cash relief, and the imme-
date enactment of the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill CHR. 1899.
Immediately after the demonstra-
ton, speakers from the various Or
CARNATIONS participating in the
march addressed the workers at a
mass meeting.
The demands of the workers at
the mass meeting and demonstra-
ton were sent to Washington and
local supervisors Of the C.W.A. and
to the relief officials.
loco at Evansville Mass Meet
EVANSVILLE. Ind. - One thou
sand C.WA. and unemployed work
ers, at mass meeting in the Y. NJ
G. A. here Friday, condemned the
new relief plan" of Roosevelt. and
demanded C.WA. jobs for all I'M
employed workers at union rates of
pay.
Steps were taken to form a per-
manent organization of the fired
C.WA. workers and the unemployed
and a decision to affiliate with the
Unemployment Councils was voted
upon almost unanimously.