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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25

In the Dearborn Section, little
was done for some time on the
question of unemployment work.
The attitude existed that everv-
body was working and there was
contentment. Now that the section
has begun TO work, at least fifteen
cases have been collected where no
relief or inadequate relief is given.
A meeting of IS workers was held
which elected a committee to go
down to the welfare station. This
committee was denied an adequate
hearing. The committee did not
put up vigorous fight for its de-
mands. Why was this so? Because
one of the leading comrades in this
committee had an attitude thai it
was not worth fighting for these
cases. In the Dearborn Section
Committee, this comrade stated
that most of these cases were of
people who wanted you to fight
for them and after the fight would
retire and do nothing" That most
of them were worthless cases."
This is an outright opportunistic
approach. When workers are ready
to go together with the Commu-
nists in such a city as Dearborn to
fight for relief it is because their
situation has become desperate and
because they recognize that only
the Communists will put up a Wig
orous fight in their behalf. This
attitude that the workers are worth
less is reflection of the propa-
ganda of the bourgeoisie, A. F. of L.
bureaucrats and reformist- Socialist
leaders. who look upon the masses
with contempt iustifying their
policies of deserving and betraying
the workers on the grounds that
they are rubbish" The Section
Committee fought against this
harmful conception.
Another illustration: On the West
Side, struggle has been going on
against increased rents. The sec
ton committee, the Jewish Bureau
and the district committee have
been attempting to develop a mass
struggle. A Tenants Protective
League has been formed already,
embracing IT'S tenants, many of
them new to the workers struggle.
A mass meeting, attended by large
numbers from the neighborhoods,
was held Apartment committees
we're formed, Tenants have refused
to pay increased rent in many
apartments. Nevertheless within
some of the units in Section such
opportunistic voices we're heard as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
Seanen Win
Relief Aid
In Detroit
M. W. |. U. Committee
Forces Welfare To
Grant Demands

DETROIT, Mich, Oct PA vic
tory was gained by about 125 sea-
men when, under the leadership Of
+ hi Marine Workers Industrial
Union, they compelled the County
Welfare Department to live up to
the federal statute providing that
unemployed seamen are to be given
cash relief to live and eat where
they please, in addition to clothing,
razor blades and toilet necessities.
The victory was won after num-
Der of conferences with County We'll
fare Superintendent John F. Ballen-
ger, during which the seamen
threatened to start a picket line at
the Welfare Department unless their
demands were granted. Finally, at
a three-hour conference Saturday
with Ballenger and Richard Hen
drick, director of state transient re-
lief, committee of 40 seamen made
them come across with $1.40 a
week for rent, $3.50 for food, besides
razor blades, tooth paste and cloth
ing for all unemployed seamen in
this port. Parson C. Tedder. organ
lied for the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union, acted as chic
spokesman for the seamen.
The majority of the seamen have
heretofore been living at two louise
ridden flophouses, Mariners Inn and
McGregor's Mission, where they
have been fed the vilest slop. The
bureaucrats of the International
Seamen's Union had arranged to
quarter them in these two dives
These bureaucrats, through their
flunkey, Edwards, who managed to
worm his way on the committee of
40, did all they could to prevent
the Seamen from getting their de-
mands, but the men stuck to-
gether and won out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
Government Anti-LGbOr
Spy Bureaus Flourish
Under N r. 4. Banners
Agents Cook Up Red
Plots To Damage
Labor Movement
By EDWARD NEWHOUSE
VII

There is scarcely a department of
the Federal Government which
does not operate It's own "Investiga-
ton Bureau" Inevitably their du-
ties resolve themselves into spying
on labor Spies definitely directed
against labor activities are used by
the Departments Of Justice, of La
Dor through its Bureau Of Immigra-
ton, Of the Treasury through its
Secret Service Division, Of Agri-
culture, War, Interior and Navy. On
the rest there are no records avail
able.
Generally conceded to be the
most active of these is the D. of US
Bureau Of Investigation, headed by
the painstakingly spectacular if
kind of dumb j. Edgar Hoover. The
Bureau was formed during Theo-
dore Roosevelt's administration
when some Treasury Department
investigators queered their own
outfit by blabbing about few
members of Congress, then involved
in Western land frauds. Also, Theo-
dore had made the mistake of using
these boys to find the hidden tryst-
ing place of naval officer who had
gone on leave in the company Of a
prominent Washington woman.
She CHANGED to be married at the
time. In a tornado of imprisoned
orations about the decline of presi-
Dental chivalry, the panied legis-
lators created the Bureau.
Assisted Palmer
Having been the assistant of A.
Mitchell Palmer in his heyday J.
Edgar Hoover is stepped in the
spirit and traditions of that gentle
man. Besides sporting in his files
reports on such reds" as Justice
Harlan Ffske Stone, Senators
Thomas j. Walsh, Burton K.
Wheeler, william E. Borah, Dean
Roscoe Pound, Professors Felix
Frankfurter and zechariah Chafee,
Jr., Frank P. Walsh and John L.
Lewis, Sleuth Hoover also boasts of
much more elaborate and, for
workers, dangerous system of over
four million finger prints.
Hoover himself is far from dan
gerous. He is pale, dark and
strongly-built man of 80 and he re-
lakes by collecting antique furni-
ture and fishing in Chesapeake Bay.
He is the prototype of the amateur
Hawkshaw who finds himself thrust
into important cases. He rushes to
the scene Of every kidnapping which
is likely to figure in the papers,
Sinking subordinates relate his
heralded entry into Hopewell, N. j.,
at the time Of the baby's kidnapping.
AS he stood in the Lindbergh yard
a stray pigeon alighted on the caves
of the house. Quivering with ex-
element, Hoover pointed at the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25

ing unemployed to poorer quarters)
increased by 1900 from April to
August over last year. New cuts
are now taking place for workers
on relief jobs, and thousands are
being laid off and thrown upon gro
Gerry orders. Already a new five per
cent cut has been ordered by the
Wayne County Relief AdminiStra-
ton to workers directly on relief;
in addition, the medical allowances
have been cut by two-thirds.
Third degree methods are being
introduced on a greater scale in or
der to cut off workers from relief.
and the number of cases where no
relief is allowed is daily increasing.
The methods of dragging out in
vestigations for weeks before relief
is granted IS now being more Sc
verely applied and workers are
compelled to go hungry upon a SO
emergency order until the authori-
ties have exhausted every means in
order to prevent new workers from
getting on the rolls.
Struggles Grow
AS a result of these conditions.
the struggles of the unemployed are
once again on the increase. During
the past few weeks, workers have
been electing committees, fighting
cases of discrimination, and COM
pelling the local supervisors to
grant relief The Twelfth Street
and Myrtle Unemployment Council
carried through demonstration
Wednesday morning against dis
elimination in relief cases, for an
increase in emergency order from
two to five dollars, for the recogni-
ton of the unemployment commit
tees. which was attended by three
to four hundred workers, and the
demands were won.
In North Detroit, a conference
was held on Saturday, Oct. 10. of
sixty delegates from mass organiza-
lions, which elected committees and
are arranging for demonstration
on Oct. Is. On the East Side in
the Lycaste Unemployment Center,
committees have been going to the
welfare and likewise winning their
demands. The Fisher Lodge work
ers, a city municipal lodging house,
in which there are 1900 inmates,
have in the last few weeks held sew
eral meetings; the last, Sunday
morning, Oct. ID, attended by 900
workers, that they be given the
right to work at least two days
week and adequate pay to maintain
themselves and obtain their lodg-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25

Unemployment Council; to attract
them into the Unemployment
Council, etc. The UNEMPLOYMENT
Council should aim to draw in
workers of the neighborhood or
CARNATIONS, particularly the A. F.
of l.. unions, Forgotten Mems Clubs,
workers clubs and fraternal or
CARNATIONS, in a common fight for
the demands of the unemployed,
The immediate necessity is to ar
range emergency conferences in all
sections, involving the widest rep
resentation of workers organiza-
tons, blocks, neighborhoods, apart
ment houses, and to arrange for
neighborhood demonstrations, lead
ing up to a city-wide conference and
demonstration.
Against Sectarian Isolation
In order to increase the work in
the field of unemployment. it is
necessary to conduct a struggle
against the sectarian methods of
work of the Communist Party units
and section committees. Their iso-
lation from the masses, their con-
Germ chiefly with internal affairs of
the unit, and the failure to connect
the work of building the Party,
securing readers and funds for the
Daily Worker, with the chief task
of conducting mass struggles-that
is the main weakness of the Party
organization.
Above all, the leadership of the
sections should set an example by
means Of concentrated work, how
to carry through struggles for the
unemployed and build the unem-
ployment organization. Only by
the leadership of the sections them
selves. planning out their work at
a particular point, winning relief
and popularizing their victories,
building local organization, draw
ing in new forces and expanding
the work of this organization, can
they provide an example to stimu-
late the rest of the section.
Against Opportunistic Defeatism
But it is also necessary to sharpen
the Struggle against the strong cur
rent of defeatisn and pessimism;
the attitude that nothing can be
done" the opportunistic conception
that the masses will no. move;
all of which is an opportunistic
cover for the do-nothing policy in
mass struggles. The pessimism. due
to an opportunistic underestimation
OF the readiness of the masses to
struggle. hampers the fight of the
Party. Some Illustrations:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25

the workers will not fight" we
Communists cannot do anything
because otherwise we would expose
ourselves" I'VE cannot get our
apartment houses organized be-
cause it is impossible" Where Party
comrades, together with non-Party
workers, went out to organize the
tenants they succeeded even within
the apartments where some Of our
comrades lived and who said that
nothing could be done. ,.-ia
A third example of the same con-
tempt for the masses. underestima-
ion of their readiness to struggle,
is shown by the attitude of a lead
ing comrade working in the A. F.
of L. in big hotel in Detroit. This
comrade opposed putting forward
demands for the great bulk of the
unskilled workers in the hotel, on
the grounds that these workers
would not fight. This is said not
withstanding the fact that in the
early part of the year, two weeks
after the workers in that hotel were
organized, they were engaged in a
strike against the management.
These illustrations suffice to show
that in order to develop a mass
struggle among the unemployed, to
increase mass work generally in the
Detroit district. it is necessary to
sharpen the attack against oppor-
tunisnl, pessimism and defeatiSt at
titudes toward the workers, and to
establish, on the basis of correct
policies and explanatory me hods,
strong discipline within the units,
particularly for mass work.
The District Committee urges all
units to make careful check on
the question of unemployment. the
situation in the neighborhood in
which they are working; urges all
sections to give careful attention TO
the question of the unemployed at
the present time and to carry out
the tasks of figh- ing for relief,
upon all the grievances of the work
ers; and to intensity the fight for
Unemployment Insurance, and to
build mass unemployed organiza-
ton in this city.
The Communist Party sections
and candidates must be in the fore
front Of these fights and in that
way bring in the election campaign
by showing the masses that the
Parry not only puts forward correct
demands but also makes deter
mined efforts to lead the struggle
for the demands and win improved
conditions for the workers.
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brought college and university
students into their plans for agi-
tation.
4. That last years strikes in
California farm areas were di-
rectly financed by Moscow
through the Civil Liberties Union.
And the last and fifth finding.
which must have taken months of
shopping, the astounding and ire
futable evidence produced to the
effect that in the plans of the Com
munist Party, The U. S. is divided
into districts, the districts into sec
lions and the sections into smaller
areas, in some cases city blocks"
Section G Men
Doubtless when the Department
OF Justice agents carry out an in
veStigation on a more limited scale
their reports are more accurate and
to the point. There are too many
deadly blacklists operating currently
for us to laugh off their efficiency.
The Military Intelligence Division
Of the War Department has its Of
ficers, the so-called Section G men.
scattered throughout the country
and they turn in vast, detailed re-
ports on workers who are not sub
missive. From Detroit, their agent.
Jacob Spolansky, has reported
infinitely on the organization eff
forts of workers. Spolansky has
been employed by the National
Metal Trades Association in its war
on unions, as well as in an official
capacity as deputy sheriff of Wayne
County.
These Section G men are always
installed in plants making motors,
shells, airplanes and other war ma
terials. Agents of the Intelligence
Division of the Department of the
Navy are stationed in factories
manufacturing ships and supplies.
The Fish Committee spoke highly
of this Divisions achievements and
stated that they had submitted to
the Committee "a most helpful and
detailed report of the Communist
organizations throughout the United
States, with accurate information
as to leadership and activities"
Small wonder then that the
Roosevelt administration will not
outlaw any of the various forms of
labor spying. 1t is one of it's own
sweet methods of strangling or
ganization. When an effort was
made for anti-espionage regulations
during the drafting of the steel
code, it was squelched before it ever
got through Johnson's office. But,
cooed, Miss Perkins, "the code does
forbid spying by one steel company
upon another" Americas Sweet
heart.
No, the New Dealers don't mind
using spies of their own. Last year,
after series of conferences in
which the Presidents personal sec
rotary, Colonel Louis McHenry
Howe, was the chief figure, the De-
partment of Justice dispa ched
some sixty operatives on a Red
hunt to the Pennsylvania coal
fields, with more to follow. The
men left with instructions to sub
Stantiate the fear of left-wing
strikes" which was to be used as
one of the maneuvers in the sign
ing of the steel code.
Vote Communist against N.R.A.
Should Join the Communist Party.
Vote Communist for a Soviet
America!
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ldy d4LbIIOUl1.
Twenty-Five representatives from
the workers at each welfare sta ion
and from Fisher Lodge, where the
single men are housed, will particle
pate in the demonstration They
will elect a committee Of from
twenty to thirty 10 present their de-
mands to County Welfare Superin-
tendent John F. Balenger, who has
agreed to meet with the committee.
The representatives from the
various welfare stations will meet
at 1890 pm. at the Greek Workers
Club, 1413 Randolph Street.
The following proposed demands
will be presented:
l. Withdrawal of the cuts; 20
per cent cash increase; no payment
of sales tax by unemployed workers.
2. Paymen. OF rent in cash; no
evictions.
3. Payment of gas. electricity,
water.
4. Abolish waiting line at welfare
stations.
s. Investigation of cases one day
after application.
g. Recognition of unemployed
committees at stations and on re-
lief jobs.
7. No discrimination against Me-
groes and foreign born.
8. Cash relief for youth, singls
men and women.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
/, 100 Protest Barring
Of Star Negro Athlete
From Michigan Game

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Eleven hun
dred people jammed the Natural
Science Auditorium at the Univer-
sity of Michigan Friday night to
protest against the barring of Willis
Ward, star Negro end of the U. of
M. football team, from the game
with Georgia Tech that was played
Saturday.
Ward was Jim-C rowed by the
university athletic authorities, who
claimed they extended this lily
white Courtesy to the southern
team on their own initiative with
out even being requested to do so.
The sentiment of the meeting.
which was sponsored by the Ma
tionsl Student League, the Vanguard
Club, and the Young Communist
League, was unanimous in its con-
demnation Of the university au-
thorities and in its demand that
Ward be allowed to play.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
HORNER MACHINE
DENIES WORKERS
RIGHT ON BALLOT
Workers Urged to Defeat the Conspiracy Against
Civil Rights by Writing Names of the
Communist Candidates on Ballots
By Bill Gebert

sented in the State of Illinois by the HornerKel-
Democratic machine the economic position of the workers.
impoverished farmers Negro and lower middle class
has grown worse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
DETROIT JOBLESS
TO MASS AT RELIEF
OFFICE ON FRIDAY
Welfare Workers, Unemployed and Single Mems
Committee Will Demand End of Relief Cuts
and Increased Winter Budgets

DETROIT, Mich Oct A.-Pushing forward their strug-
gle against the cuts in relief that went into effect on Oct
10, the Unemployment Councils and the Relief Workers
Protective Association calling demonstration at the
Welfare Department 176 East jefferson Avenue on Fri
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25

Capitalist Politicians Pass Laws
to Destroy Food. Communist
Public Officeholders Will Fight
to Destroy the A. A. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25

Vote for Candidates Who Fight
for the Workers 365 Days q
Year-Vote Communist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
Demonstrate In North District

Eighty delegates from various
workers organizations in North De-
troit participated in a united front
unemployed conference Saturday
afternoon at Polish Chamber Of
Labor Hall, 1880 Charest Avenue.
The conference decided to hold a
demonstration at the welfare sta
ton at Joseph Campau and Davi-
son Avenues Friday at 1890 am. to
demand withdrawal Of the cuts, =
20 per cent increase in relief,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
Buick Workers Press Relief

FLINT, Mich, Oct. 24.-The Buick
Local Of the United Automobile
Workers "a. r. Of IL has elected
a relief committee of ten to fight
for decent relief for its members.
The relief situation in this Cen
ersl Motors-controlled city has been
growing steadily worse. Recently a
so per cent cut in the already mis-
cradle relief was put through.
1t is to combat conditions such
as these that the Buick local has
elected relief committee.
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Vote Communist against N.R.A.
Should Join the Communist Party.
Vote Communist for a Soviet
America!
Evening star., 1934-12-13
CORNER STONE RITE
SET FOR SATURDAY
Salvation Army Will Hold
Exercises at Site OF
New Building.

The corner stone Of the new Social
Service Center Building Of the Saliva
ton Army, to be located at First and
r streets, will be laid Saturday morn
ing by Alexander Damon of Atlanta,
commissioner in charge Of the South
ern territory of the army.
He will be assisted by District Com
missioner Melvin c. HaZen, who will
preside at the ceremonies. Brig. J. G..
MCGEE, who is in charge of the CEN
ter at present, will introduce Commits
sioner Hazen, and DR.. Frederick Brown
Harris, pastor Of Foundry Methodist
Episcopal Church, will offer a prayer
for the success Of the new building
and its enterprises.
Executive Offices Stay.
The center, which is exclusively for
men, was formerly located at 102 Con-
stitution avenue, but for some time
now has been at 629 New Jersey ave-
hue, where the executive Offices will
remain until the new building is COM
pleted, probably in March.
The new building will house the ad-
ministrative offices and sleeping ac-
commodations for IS men, with din
ing rooms and recreation rooms in
cluded in one wing of the structure.
A storeroom where materials collected
by the Salvation Army may be re-
Evening star., 1934-12-13
SANTA FOR JOBLESS
ENGAGED BY F. E. R. A.
Toys Are Repaired and Recon
ditioned in Thousands Of Work
shops as Yule Gifts.

throughout the country will be re-
membered at Christmas by special
Santa Claus engaged by the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration.
For weeks past, the sewing rooms
and work centers of many local relief
administrations have been concen-
trating on the repair and recondi-
tioning of toys which have been do
mated, as well as making rag dolls
and other toys out of donated ma
terials. Warm clothing for infants
and small children also have been
accumulated for distribution.
Reports from directors of women's
Evening star., 1934-12-13
sold, also will be located in the new

sold, also will be located in the new
building.
The Boys Band Of the National
Training School will play series Of
selections at the dedication exercises.
rs Are Accommodated.
The shops, where cast-off and do
mated materials are renovated by the
army's workers, are located between
First and Second and z and r streets,
where they will remain after the new
building is completed.
At present approximately rs men
are being accommodated with food
and lodging daily at rooms located at
$40 Sixth street.
The new building will centralize
these divisions of the work and is ex-
pected to increase the amount Of re-
lief work that can be distributed
among those most needing it.
Evening star., 1934-12-13
Bandeaux, CSC

go of fine silk, lace, net and
batiste. Sizes 80 to 38.
10 Bien Jolie Light weiEht Csrs-
cites OF peach batiste. some with
lastex backs. Sizes 80. "a. 81 and
IS. were SIS and so:
10 De Beveise Cersettes Of peach
broche and elastic with lace or
treco top. Well boned for the
heavy figure. Sizes Al to -: -;
a. and 4s. Were $50. Now S4.Ss
Surgical Belts. Sizes 81. 81 a:
Were IS. Now. ........ .s2.so
IL Step-in Girdles Of peach crepe
de chine. satin or batiste. Semi
step-in or side lacing models sizes
-. IS. 80 to "a. Were -;
Now ............. ....'... si'V'
4 Bjen JoIie Longtime Satin Bras
sieres with four sarterS attached.
Sizes IS. 40 and ~. Were SOU
Now '~i'"o
10 Woodthrop One-Pieee Garments.
OF peach batiste with net bust. Sizes
80. 80 IS. SO. 81 and 80. Were
SIS Now. w............ S:.eo
CoRsETs, THIRD FLOOR.
Evening star., 1934-12-13
YULE PARTY PLANNED
so Needy Children to Be Guests
at Navy Yard Fete Christmas.

Fifty needy children of Washington
will get . real taste of Christmas
December rs at q party given at the
Navy Yard Receiving Station, Lieut..
w. r. Terrell announced today. Names
of the children invited were supplied
by the Salvation Army.
The fun will start at IL am, he
said, with q band concert lasting till