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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18

THE automobile code, written by
the manufacturers, approved by
the President and signed by VIM.
Green and other A. F. of L. leaders,
was to have expired September 4,
1884.
For the workers, the results of the
code during the past year have
been: 81 A general cutting down
of maximum wages towards the
minimum of 43c to Ale per hour.
90 Resistance by employers to
every demand of workers for wage
increases to meet the rising living
costs (Which rose as high as 20 to
80 per cent?. 30 Utilization by en-
ployers of the infamous merit
clause" to victinize thousands of
active union workers belonging to
the A.W.U., the A. F. of L. and the
MESA. "a The open violation by
many employers of their own code
by paying less than the minimum
wage and forcing the working of
more than the maximum number
OF hours. 90 The growth of COM
pany unions.
Only where auto workers went on
strike, in most cases against the
wishes of the A. F. of L. top lead
ers, did they succeed in stopping
the attacks of employers and win
ming increased wages and improved
conditions.
Big Profits
For the auto manufactures the
code has been of considerable aid
in helping them register a very
profitable year. For the first nine
months of 1884, the General Motors
Corporation registered net earnings
available for dividends of sg2, ,341
compared with $81, 409, 1894 for the
similar period of 1888. A number of
other manufacturers declared divi-
dends for 10 months of this year
of $91 1851 900 compared with $751;
$4,000 for the first ten months of
last year. These last figures show
an increase in profits of close to
so per cent.
To further his no-strike truce"
scheme, President Roosevelt re-
newed the auto code until February
1st, and instructed the National In
dustrial Relations Board to conduct
study of the possibility of reg
ulating employment and otherwise
improving the conditions of this in
dustry." He retained the Infamous
"inerit clause
The objective Of the employers,
backed by the government, is the
same this year as it was last year,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18

II armerS = aY
Cotton Act
Ruined Them
System Gives Aid to
Plantation Masters,
Says Educator

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. Dec. 17.-As
direct result of the Bankhead
Cotton Control Act, arbitrarily re-
ducing cotton acreage, the Alabama
tenant farmer is now closer to serf-
dom than ever before, DR.. Clarence
E. Cason, head of the school of
journalism at the University Of Ala
bama declared in an interciew.
THE Federal money which the
control act has brought into the
South has given much comfort to
the large plantation masters and
county merchants, but there is con-
siderable doubt as to whether it
has aided the tenant farmers who
form the base Of the pyramid rep
resenting the Southern agricultural
system.
These tenant farmers who have
been perennially in debt and on the
verge of starvation, glinpsed a ray
Of hope in the compulsory feduc-
ton plans for 1894. But this au-
tunn not few Of them find them
selves closer to serfdom than ever
before.
zone of the reasons for this con-
dition lies in the widely employed
contract between the landlord and
renter which places the landlords
lien on the first three bales pro-
duced by the tenant. If this renter
happens to have been given a gov
eminent allotment Of exactly three
bales, he has no way of getting his
hands on bit of cash except
through paying the surplus tax on
each pound he may have in excess
of the allotment.
ut is these tenants whom we
hear describing the control project
as 1egalized robbery and a mis-
cradle political blunder.'"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18

namely, to put over the employers
program of speed-up, wage-cuts and
company unions; and by means of
promises and delays, prevent work
ers from taking action into their
own hands and striking at time
when united action would insure
victory for the workers.
Sloan, of the General Motors
Corporation, furthers this scheme
with his announcement of a plan
to put out new models at different
times of the year, thereby elininat-
ing peaks and valleys of production
and "abolishing unemployment"
This announcement gave VIM.
Green an opportunity to boast of
another victory" for A. F. of L.
leadership. One of the four pro-
posals that he made for modifying
the auto code was for the "assur-
ance of a production schedule with
in the industry that will space new
model offerings in a manner that
will obyiate long lay-offs for the
industry as a whole during the
period of new model preparations. :"
This is the only proposal that the
employers or the government makes
pretense of studying. The other
proposals of VIM. Green, for the
elimination of the merit clause, :"
for an increase in minimum wage
scales, and a 30-hour week, were
rejected. Needless to say, VIM.
Green did not demand that re-
vised code shall recognize the right
of workers to strike, provide for un-
employment insurance, or the elirni-
nation of all discrimination against
Negro and foreign-born workers.
This promise Of abolishing I'M
employment in the industry is a
false hope dangled for the purpose
of misleading the workers. The
productive capacity of the industry
is 100000 cars year. The most
optimistic of the capitalists dare not
predict market for more than
100000 cars for next year and the
probability is very strong that ac-
tual production will be even less
than this year The competitive
struggle is more intense than ever,
particularly amongst the Big g.
Ford, General Motors and Chrysle.-.
Each one tries to hog the market.
Each tries to speed UP the workers
to the Utmost, to eliminate the
number Of operations, to cut down
wages. Steady employment, planned
production, is impossible under a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
Sacramento l8
AreIhreatened
By New Plot
Prosecutor and Juror
Hatch False Tale of
Death Warnings
BY JACK CRANE
Especial to the Daily worker)

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Dec. IT,
The day after Abbott and Hoffman,
two reputed stool pigeons of Red
Hynes, chief of the Los Angeles
Red Squad" arrived here from Los
Angeles, new frame-up was sprung
against the 18 workers now on trial
on charges of criminal syndicalism,
with the district attorney charging
that he and two prospective jurors
had received death threats.
Notified Of the new charge only a
few minutes before court convened
on Friday Leo Gallagher, Interna-
tiotal Labor Defense attorney, at
once demanded a full and public
hearing on the matter. Mrs. Nix,
one of the jurors testified that last
Thursday 18 men called on her in
the course of two hours and threat
ened herself and her husband with
death by machine gun and drown
ing"
Under defense questioning, Mrs.
Nix became so confused and in
volved in contradictions that the
prosecution hastily interviewed, and
despite the vigorous protests of Gal
lagher, she was allowed to go home,
plainly the better to rehearse her
fantastic story.
Defendant Cited for Contempt
Martin Wilson, one of the de-
PENDANTS, was cited for contempt of
court for protesting and pointing
to the hand of the district attorney
and Red" Hynes in this latest
frameup. A defense motion for a
declaration of mistrial on accout of
the open prejudice expressed against
the defendants was denied by Judge
Dial M. Lennon. A motion for a
change of venue on the same
grounds was also denied.
Continuing her testimony on Sat
urday, Mrs. Nix admitted that she
and her husband have been in
California less than the year de-
manded under the law for prospec-
tive jurors. Called to the stand by
Gallagher, District Attorney Nc
Allister admitted that he had had a
conversation with "Red" Hynes a
few days before the arrest of the
10 defendants, that he was we'll &C
quainted with members Of the
vigilantes, by person though mot
by name" and that he had placed
a woman stool pigeon among the
girl defendants to see if they spoke
to women jurors in the rest room
during recesses.
Assistant Deputy D. A. Buchler,
questioned by Gallagher, stated that
the mother Of defendant Warwick
had called on Mrs. Rose to discuss
the case. Gallagher demanded that
Judge Lennon, the District Attor-
ney, the court stenographer and
himself visit Mrs. Rose Immediately.
At her home, Mrs. Rose testified
under oath that Mrs. Warwick never
had spoken to her or visited her
home. She, however, declared that
Bucller had stopped at her home
for dinner and cocktails during the
trial.
The defense charged the proseCu-
ton with tampering with the Jury,
and demanded a further irlvestiga-
tiei which was denied Al Warren
of the American Civil Lib ties
Union, assisted Gallagher in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18

lana on December 70. Inc confer
ence is called by large and repres-
ertative group of workers and iber-
ais who have formed themselves into
a provisional committee to aid the
fight for the repeal CT the vicious
working class ordinance, under
which DeJonge was convicted and
sentenced to 7 years Imprisonment.
Signers Of the conference call in
clude Ben Anderson, local attorney
and secretary Of the provisional
committee, Ralph c. Clyde, Port
land city commissioner, Harry Ken
in and Harry w. Stone, members of
the Multnomah Coutt School board;
Harry Miner, retired U. S. Army
major; several prominent members
of the Portland Central Labor Cour-
Gil; many professional and business
men, well-known Oregon ministers
and various officers of the Interna-
tionsl Labor Defense and the Amer
lean Civil Liberties Union
Gust Anderson, secretary Of the
Portland Central Labor Defense, al
though admitting while appearing as
a witness against DeJonge, that the
A. F. Of L. was on record against
the Criminal Syndicalist Law, re-
fused to sign the Call on the pretext
that he was unwilling to place the
Central Labor Council on record
without its sanction" Several local
A. F. Of L. unions, however, have
already demonstrated that they do
not share Anderson's concihatory
attitude toward the anti-working
class law, by electing delegates to
the December % conference.
With the fraine-up conviction of
DeJonge and other militant work.
ers, sentiment for the repeal of the
criminal syndicalist law is growing
throughout the State.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
5 of 'Stevedore' Cast
To Appear At Concert
For Young Worker

PHILADELPHIA Pa, Dec. ia
concert and lecture program for the
benefit of the Young Worker will be
held On Friday night at the Boslover
Hall, 7O1 Pine Street, at 8 o'clock.
Among the speakers will be Ella
Reeve Bloor and James ". Ford.
The program is under the aus
pices Of the Philadelphia Committee
for the Young Worker, which is in
the midst of drive for circulation
and funds.
In addition to the speakers. there
will be Red vaudeville, wrestling
match, the Workers Chorus, and
other features. The highlight Of the
evening will be a presentation Of
five members of the cast Of Steve
dore," now playing in Philadelphia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
Pact Violation
By Dye Boss
Brings Pickets

PATTERSON, N j., Dec. IA
mass picket line of 1000 silk work
ers forced the Park Silk company
to close its doors on Saturday. The
shop was making an attempt to
operate with non-union workers, in
violation of the union agreement
The boss of the shop drew a re-
volver on a committee of the union,
but the workers disarmed him be-
fore he could fire.
The picket line followed a meet
ing of the broad silk department
of the Silk union UNITED Textile
Workers., where nominations for
candidates to the executive board
of the department were made. The
rank and file nominated slate
which included Alex Phillian, Luigi
Valgo, S. Sheber, S. Phillian, Bob
Appel, Sarah Berlinski, Joseph
Brooks, Mile Del Vecchio and
others.
Alex Phillian was elected chair
man Of the membership meeting,
with Keller nominee getting only
a few votes.
On a motion of the rank and file,
a committee was elected to make
changes in the proposed new consti-
tuition and report back to the next
membership meeting. One of the
proposals opposed by the rank and
file is that the Joint Executive
Board shall be the highest body in
the union instead Of the member
ship meetings.
Eli Keller, Lovestoneite renegade,
refused to report on the second
point on the agenda, the progress
of negotiations with the silk en-
ployers, who are violating the agree
ment. But another Official reported
no progress, with the employers at
tempting to enforce Saturday work
and wage cuts. The meeting then
adjourned to the picket line.
In the Dyers' Union, Local 1913,
which also met Saturday, slate
headed by Charles Vigoritto. rank
and file leader, was nominated. Vi
goritto is running for president in
opposition to Anthony Ammirato.
Anmirato is member of the
national executive council of the
United Textile Workers Union and
voted with German to cali off the
general textile strike.
Vigoritto, at present vice-prasi-
dent of the union, was one of the
most aggressive and militant lead
ers Of the recent dye strike, which
eliminated in gains for the dye
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18

!. textile strike in 1929 and recently
the arrest Of Jane Allen and myself
by police, who raided the home Of
a Negro worker when Negro and
white workers met to plan for the
election Of delegates, the workers
are the more determined to have
representation at the coming Ma
tional Congress.
IN addition to sending textile and
unemployed workers, the local COM
mittee has been asked by a group
of Negro ministers to speak on the
forthcoming Congress. Both Negro
and white workers are planning to
fill the court room at the trial Of
Jane Allen and myself tomorrow.
Throughout the South energetic
activity is centering around the
coming Congress. In Newport News
the Unemployment Councils have
set up a united front between the
unemployed and longshoremen and
several Negro churches for the cleo
ton of delegates. The Richmond
Unemployment Councils, which have
taken the lead in the drive behind
the Congress, have set themselves
the goal Of bringing a representa-
tive delegation Of fifteen to the
Congress from the employed and
unemployed.
A local united front between the
Socialist and Communist Parties,
the Unemployment Council, Anal
gamated Workers League and trade
unions and churches has been
firmly established around the COM
ing Congress. Fully 400 workers,
about 305 of whom were Negroes,
met at a mass meeting here and
raised $50 for the local expenses Of
the Congress.
Throughout the entire Northern
part of the State of North Carolina,
section covering Durham, Reds
vile and Winston-Salem, the to-
baceo workers, who are organized
into the Tobacco Workers Inter-
national Union "a. F. of L., are
responding to the call to the Ma
tional Congress, and are preparing
to send delegates. These workers
have been kept on wages as low as
s218 to 81 for a week of 20 hours,
although the blanket code sup
posedly established a minimum
wage of twenty cents an hour.
These poverty stricken workers
are collecting their pennies and
nickels to assure themselves of a
representative delegation at the
Congress. Help is needed, however,
if the delegates from the Southern
States are to attend the National
Congress. All individuals and or
genizations which sincerely wish to
get behind the drive for unenploy-
ment insurance should rush con-
tributions to the National Sponsor
ing Committee, 1893 Broadway, Room
624, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
Trial Date Set for Five
On Bombing Charges
In Birmingham Strike

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. IT,
Trial of five Negro and white work
ers, framed in connection with
several recent bombings here, has
been set for January 81.
The defendants are John Catch
ings, George Porter and Lee Carter,
white, and William O'Neal Cotton
and Melvin Watson, colored.
Henry Manuel, another Negro
worker. is to go on trial January 7
on a trumped-up charge of dyna-
hitting a railroad car of Republic
Steel. The bombings occurred
during strike struggles here and are
believed to be the work of agent
rrovocateurs hired by the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
Literature Agent Held
By Washington Police
For Passing Leaflets

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. IT.
The Washington Branch of the
Friends of the Soviet Union has
filed a vigorous protest with the
District Commissioners and Major
Brown, Chief of Police, against the
arrest and finger printing of Sam
Dickian, literature agent of the
branch.
Dickian was arrested last Monday
night for distributing leaflets deal
ing with the tremendous advance 5s
socialist industry and agriculture in
the Soviet Union Oh / the firm peace
policy of the workers and peasants
government. He was held incom-
municado for "a hours at the eighth
precinct S a tion, finger printed,
photographed and questioned by
immigration officers.
Although no charges were filed
against Dickian and he was later
released, the police have so far re-
fused to return the literature taken
from him at thv time of his arrest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
BULLETIN

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. H.
In mass funeral last Wednesday
night, Portland workers paid their
last tribute to Emil Linden, mill
tant fighter for the working class,
who was killed in an automobile
accident in Seattle on Nov. 80.
SEATTLE, Wash, Dec. 17-Plans
for the Northwest conference of
fishermen and cannery workers,
which was to have been held some
time this month, have been altered
by the death Of Emil Linden, ma
tional secretary of the Fishermen's
and Cannery Workers Industrial
Union, in an automobile accident
on Dec. 2.
Although the conference will deal
with the problems originally set for
it, it will not meet until January.
Reorganization of the work of the
union, made necessary in part by
the death of Linden, has been I'M
dertaken by National Chairman
Elias Gimstead with the assistance
Of Paul Dale, Columbia River or
ganizer Of the union in the Astoria
territory.
This conference will be prepara-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
Fishermen Prepare
For Union Conference
On Northwest Coast
Farley to Arrange for National Convention of
Fishermen's and Cannery Workers Industrial
Union; Fight for Higher Prices Planned

tory to the holding of the National
Convention of the Fishermen's and
Cannery Workers Industrial Union,
which will unity and build a mighty
weapon of struggle for better fish
prices and conditions for the fish
ermen and cannery workers of the
Pacific Coast and the United
States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
FISHERMEN Refussd snnnlIes


ASTORIA, Oregon, Dec. 1.-THE
fish packers at Astoria are trying
to keep the fish prices down to
starvation levels by refusing Irvine
to fishermen unless they have cash
to pay for it. They are already
speaking of a fish price settlement.
Unless a satisfactory price agree
ment is reached they will not give
out Irvine.
They know that the largest per-
centage of gill-netters on the Co
lumbia made nothing last summer
and have no cash to buy Irvine. I'm
less they get Irvine and other sup
plies they will not be able to fish
next summer. The packers see in
this Way of forcing the fishermen
to accept low fish price so that
their profits will continue.
have been sent by Arvo Husa, state
secretary of the United Farmers
League of North Dakota, it was an
nounoed today.
The letters enclosed a copy of a
call to action on the Scottsboro
case which has been sent to all
United Farmers League locals, with
a request that similar letters be sent
to all Farmers Union and Holiday
Association locals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
NORTHWEST FARLEY
TO DEMAND REPEAL
OF ANTI-LABOR LAW
Civil Rights Conference to Be Held Dec. % in
Portland-Fight for Freedom of De Jonge
to Be Central Issue in Drive

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec IA broad united front cam
pagn against the Oregon criminal syndcaist law and for
the release of Dirk De Jonge Communist candidate for
Mayor in the last election here will be launched at Civil
Rights Conference to be held at the W. O. W. hall in Port
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
United Farmers League
Urges Holiday Group to
Aid Scottsboro Fight

BELDEN, N. D.-Letters urging
the Farmers Union and the Holt
day Association to join in the cam
,aign to free the Seottsboro boys
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
VIRGINIA WORKERS
TO SEND BIG GROUP
TO SURETY FARLEY
Socialists, Negro Churches, and JobIess Groups
Join in Local United Fronts to Organize Del
egations to Congress in Washington
BY Ann Burlak

DANVILLE, Va. Dec 17--In the face of police liz
midaton workers here proceeding with preparations
for the coming National Congress for Unemployment In
which will be held in Washington Jan. ST.
In this community, which the scene Of the huge
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
WHAT'S ON
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.

Corliss Lamont will lecture on THE
Soviet Union and Religion" Friday,
Dec. 81, 8 p. m. at Musicians Hall,
100 N 18th ST. Admission 30c at
door,
Mass Meeting and send off for Dele
gates to National Congress for So
cial and Unemployment Insurance,
Friday, Dec. 20, 8 pm. at Broadway
Arena, Broad and Christian streets.
Speakers: Herbert Benjamin, Mother
Bloor, William N. Jones. Freiheit &C.
sangs Farein, Workers Harmonica
Band
John Reed Club presents Michael
Gold, author OF Jews without
Money on THE Crisis in Modern
Literature" Thursday, Dec 20. at 8
pm. sharp at Musicians Hail. 100 N.
9th st. Adm. soc.
Maiden, Mass.
Mass meeting for Unemployment In
surance, Odd Fellows Hall, as Holy
oke ST., Tuesday, Dec. IS at 8 PM
sharp.
Linden, ". J.
New Jersey Film Circuit presents
Soviet film Shame" at St. George
Playhouse, St. George and Chandler
corner, Tuesday, Dec. ls Continuous
performances from 7 to II pm. Adj
<affS:on Csc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
AFFAIRS FOR THE
DAILY WORKER
Detroit. Mich.

VIM. Weinstone, District Organizer of
the Communist Party will speak on
Karl Marx: His Life apd Works, .
Thursday. Dec. 90, at $40 pm. at
Maccabees Auditorium, woodward at
Putnam. Sponsored by John Reed
CLUB Ct Detroit Admission Csc.
East st. Louis, No.
Benefit Banquet, Sunday, Dec. %,
pm. ct Yociss Hail. 537 Collinsville
st. Admission to banquet, CSC per
plate
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Spread the Daily Worker Among
Your Shopmates.
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Maiden, Mass.

Mass meeting for Unemployment In
surance, Odd Fellows Hall, As Holy
oke ST., Tuesday, Dec. IS at 8 pm.
ct- w,
Evening star., 1934-06-06
refrigerated cities under the tropie

refrigerated cities under the tropic
sun
The Brazilian laborer who used to
carry coffee on the Santos quays
feels no alarm or indignation as he
sees the sacks borne in endless rows
from warehouse to hold ON conveyor
belts 1t is difficult to starve in Brazil
as it Is in Argentina or Ecuador or
Colombia or Venezuela. and he can
find other. easier ways of Subsisting
than carrying coffee all day.
Machines Not Blamed.
In Chile and Bolivia and Peru 1t
Is easier to Starve, for nitrate. cop
per and tin contain no vitaminS. and
there is hunger. particularly in Chile
but this is because the machines
have stopped running. When steam
SpurtS from the shoyels and smoke
flows from the chimneys the god of
the machine is in his heaven and
there is work.
Machinery did not cause overpro-
duction of coffee in Brazil, beef or
wine In Argentina. But it would help
these countries and their neighbors
to diversity their economic scheme,
observers say, to develop and finish
their own raw materials. and TO win
the economic independence toward
which all of them are striving. They
/ cannot afford. in these days. as much
machinery as they need and want, but
they are buying it as rapidly as they
can, and counting on it to improve
their economy and raise living stand
ards
Tomorrow-Japan.