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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
Shoot to KILL
Textile Bosses
Paper Urged
Fibre and Fabric Asked
for More Blood in
General Strike

NEW YORK. The textile organ,
Fibre and Fabric, one of the most
outspoken voices of the bosses in
this industry, was aroused to par
ticular fury in connection with the
general textile strike. 1t called for
fascist tactics in fighting back the
workers. September /, on the eve
Of the strike, 1t declared editorially:
eff our government would deport a
few hundred agitators and Jail some
more, there would be industrial
peace, normal recovery and the in
fluence of the N.R.A. would count. F"
A fortnight later, at the peak of
the strike, after twelve strikers had
been murdered by textile capitalists
and their state machinery, it fol-
lowed this up with the following:
Already there has been shooting
and the orders have been given in
some sections to shoot to kill This
is the only way to do it and a few
hundred funerals will have a quiet
ing influence"
Having thus disposed of the
strikers, this journal continues to
advance Hitler's theory of labor
leaders" in its issue of Septem-
Der %; Collective bargaining should
be consigned to the dump and 80
per cent of the differences could
be adjusted satisfactorily to all con-
cerned by the overseers and the
superintendent" This was merely
the reiteration of a statement made
by the same paper last summer:
1.-THE best collective bargaining for
textile mill workers is through their
own overseers, without any outside
influence"
A week later it continued to urge
its old theme-the outlawing of all
strikes. I'VE look for real labor
court and a discontinuance of
strikes"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
German Halls N.R.A.
Stretch-out Boards
As Another Victory

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.-Francis
J. German, vice-president of the
United Textile Workers, who dur
ing the recent general textile strike
made statements that the workers
were through with boards, yester-
day issued a statement hailing
Roosevelt's order for three new
stretch-out boards as another "vic-
tory" for the workers.
These boards, to be appointed by
the bosses Textile Labor Relations
Board, have as their main task more
Investigations until Feb. /, 1895, and
also have the power to increase the
present intolerable stretchout.
German tries to square his en-
dorsement of these three new
boards by saying that they were
created by presidential decree,
whereas the old Bruere Commission
was created by the Cotton Textile
Code Authority with the express
consent of the U. T. w. officials,
and by General Johnson, under the
power given him by Roosevelt him.
self.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
FurW orkers Hold Picket
Lines Despite Terror

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18.-Con-
tinuing their drive to force Nav
son-Demany and one or two other
large fur shops to join smaller
bosses in granting demands raised
by the general strike in the trade,
picket line, under direction of the
Fur Workers Industrial Union, pre-
vented scabs from entering the
plant at Eleventh and Chestnut
Streets. In a short scuffle as one
scab tried to break through the line,
he was found carrying a lead pipe,
which, however, he had no chance
to use. Police jumped in among the
pickets, arresting two of them.
Other pickets set up a militant
protest, forcing the arrest Of the
armed scab. Later, however, he was
summarily discharged by magis-
trate. Fur workers, crowding the
courtroom, watched eagerly to see
what would happen to the arrested
pickets. The magistrate, no doubt,
felt the sentiment of the workers,
for he discharged the pickets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20

fight for the lives and freedom o
the boys. Thus, the Forward de-
clares:
"The Communists are still the
most deadly enemies of the Scotts-
boro case"
We Communists have always de-
clared that the roots Of the rape"
frame-up of the Scottsboro boys are
deeply inbeddsd in the conditions
OF national oppression and persecu-
ton of the Negro people. We main
tain that no effective fight can be
waged for the lives of the boys that
does not take this into account. We
maintain that to be effective, the
fight for the boys must Of necessity
De fight against oppression and
plundering Of the Negro paople,
against the conditions that breed
rape" frame-ups and mob and legal
lynchings of Negro toilers.
scottsboro RalIying Cry for Unity
Scotcsboro is not an isolated case
of Negro persecution. 1t is not a
mere miscarriage of justice as the
reformists would have us believe.
Scottsboro is both symbol of the
persecution of the Negro people, and
rallying cry for united action by
the Negro masses and all real friends
Of the Negro people in relentless
struggle for the lives and freedom
of the boys, for complete equality
of the Negro people, for the right
of the brutally exploited Negro
majorities in the BLACK Belt" to
govern those territories in which
they constitute a majority of the
population In other words, for the
smashing Of the whole rnonstrous
system Of Negro oppression and &C
companying degradation of the
Southern white toilers; for equality
everywhere for the Negro people
and for self-determination for the
Negro people in the BLACK Belt"
territories.
This has been the firm position
of the Communists from the very
first day of the Scottsboro case.
This is the position OF the Negro
and white fighters for the Scots
boro boys. The history Of the Scots
boro case, proving that mere proof
of innocence Of Negro victims Of
capitalist justice IS Of no avail in
the lynch courts, fully confirm the
correctness of this position.
Refor.nists and the Good
Relations" Bunk
The Socialist leaders, together
with other reformists, white and
Negro, attack this position. SO do
the lynch rulers. but their attacks
frankly express their determination
to maintain their oppressive and
plundering rule Of the NEGRO people.
The refornists, however, pretend
that the Communist position en-
dangers the supposed good rela-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
Depression Adds to Toll
Of Death, Akron Health
Director Says in Report

AKRON, Ohio, Oct. 19.-One
death every SO hours in Akron may
be directly charged to the depres-
sion, according to DR.. M. D. Allies,
city health doctor.
The chief cause Of the increased
death rate is the fact that per-
sons on relief and those receiving
small wages are forced to buy food
with an eye to price and, as a re-
suit, eat too much starch, DR.. Allies
said.
Other causes listed were the in
ability Of people to go to doctors
when they should, and exposure
due to improper clothing and shell
ter, resulting in a large tuberculo-
sis gain, Dr.. Allies said. Greatly de-
creased municipal expenditures was
also listed as an important factor.
That the Akron condition is gen.
eral is seen in report by the State
Health Department. The death toll
of the State was 16 deaths a day
higher during the first nine months
of 1894 than during the same Pc
Rod of 1888.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
CASE
Is A RALLYINC CRY
FOR UNITED ACTION

Negro people and the whole white
population! The exploited white
tollerS, the natural allies of the
oppressed Negro masses, are Jumped
together with the capitalists by The
Socialist paper in a common front
against the Negro people.
Substitutes Race War" For Glass
Struggle
From this position flows the line,
repeatedly given expression by the
Socialist leaders, that the arising
class and national struggles in the
South are leading to race war"
between the Negroes and the whole
white population; that the f1gh.
for Negro liberation is unconnected
with the struggles of the working
class for social emancipation, for
the social revolution which will
wipe out all forms of exploitation
and oppression. From this follows
the conclusion that the white
workers, themselves exploited by
the ruling class, should not support
the strugges Of the Negro people
against that ruling class.
Indeed, the inference may prop
erly be drawn that the Socialist
leaders seek to line up the white
toilers in support of the lynch rul-
ers' attempts to drown the Negro
liberation struggle in blood. That
this inference is by no means far
fetched is shown by the shameful
record of the Belgian Socialists of
support and actual participation,
through their labor" banks, ETC.,
in the exploitation of the Negro
masses of the Belgian Congo; by
the support of the French Social
lists to their predatory bourgeoisie in
its colonial wars against the Afrinen
masses Morocco, etc., and in the
use of troops and bombing planes
by the British Labor Governments
to crush the struggles of the masses
Of Nigeria, West Africa; Of India
Egypt, etc.
Attacks Fighters For Boys; Not
LyncherS
The Socialist leaders center their
attacks not on the lynch rules OF
Alabama and their courts, which are
seeking to burn the innocent Scots
boro boys in the electric chair on
Dec. 7, but on the revolutionary
forces leading the worldwide mass
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
BY CYRIL BRIGGS

The Socialist Party is seeking the
support of Negro voters in the pres
ent election campaign on the claim
that vote for the Socialist can
didateS is vote for Socialism, "
and thus for Negro emancipation.
Are the Socialist leaders sincere
when they speak of Negro emanci-
patton? Is there test to which
their professions can be subjected?
There is. That test lies in con-
trasting their promises with their
deeds, their words with their ac-
tons.
To take only one example: the
Scottsboro Case affords an excel
lent testing ground by which to
measure the sincerity of all the
professed friends of the Negro peo-
pie. Scottsboro is a struggle be-
tween two opposing classes: in one
camp are the friends of Negro lib
Grafton; in the other are the advo-
Gates and sly supper ,ers of lynch
ing, persecution and national OPP
preston of the Negro people. Let
us see in which Of these two camps
are the Socialist leaders.
Forward wipes Out" Glass
Divisions
In it's issue of Friday, Oct. IL,
the Socialist Jewish Forward"
gloating over the apparent success
of the plot engineered by Samuel
S. Leibowitz and Harlem Negro
misleaders to GUST the Interna-
tional Labor Defense from the case,
attacks the I. L. D. policy of mobi-
lizing and uniting the toiling
masses, black and white, to the de-
tense of the boys. 1t declares of
the 1. L. D. conduct of the Scots
boro defense:
"All the grudges that exist be-
tween the Negro race and the white
people, all the conflicts between the
working class and the capitalists,
between man and God, between life
and death-everything was dragged
into the Scottsboro case"
Thus, according to the Forward,
the natural resentment of the op-
pressed Negro masses against the
white ruling class oppressors, their
struggles against m-crowism,
lynching, ETC., are mere grudges.
And, at that, grudges between the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
AFL Journal
Slurs Textile
Plant Strike
Houston Labor Journal
Attacks Local Fighting
for Recognition

HOUSTON, Texas-One of the
crassest examples of collision be-
tween A. F. of L. misleaders and
the manufacturers to defeat the
striking textile workers is found in
the Houston Labor Journal, official
paper of the A. F. of L. unions in
this city.
In a prominently displayed front
page editorial, the Journal viciously
attacks the action Of the workers Of
the Houston Textile Co., who had
gone out during the General Strike
and continue to stay out to win.
recognition of their union. The
editorial is an apology since the
company claims that the strike
forces it to close down the plant.
The Houston Textile Company is
praised very highly for it's "set-
sacrificing" record durips the crisis,
and the editorial believas every
word of the conpsny's claim that
dividends were waved and losses
were sustained only to keep the
workers on the Job. Although the
workers in the plant found condi-
tions so unbearable that they re-
manned out on strike this organ of
the labor takers insists that they
were getting the best wages of any
textile mill in the state and have
no reason to complain.
The apology" finishes up with
the following:
"The majority of the members
of organized labor in Houston are
the proverbial salt of the earth
the backbone of the community.
But as for the imported business
agents" who organize a new
union, suck 1t dry through cOIIec-
ton of dues, and then abandon it
to its own devices, for these there
Is but one adequate punishment
coat of tar and feathers and
free transportation out of town on
the top side Of rail-"
The letter of the company, an
that as soon as enough
workers are ready to return to work
on the basis of conditions that are
as bad as or worse than those
which obtained prior to the strike,
it will reopen, is printed in full in
this labor" journal. The workers
in this southern city are organized
in the A. F. of L. United Textile
Workers Union. Yet their deter
mination to win conditions fit for
human beings arouses the labor
leaders" to a viciousness typical Of
the worst southern lynchers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
Los Angeles Workers
To Hear Three Reports
Of Anti War Congress

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 18-Reports
from three delegates to the Second
.. s. Congress Against War and
Fascisn will be heard at a mass
meeting at Music Arts Hall, 23S S.
Broadway, at 8 pm. on Monday.
The three who will report are:
Loren Miller, Negro writer, who
represented the John Reed Club of
Hollywood; Thomas Sharpe, sea-
man, whose splintered leg offered
the convention eloquent testimony
of the growth of fascism in this
country, and DR.. J. C. Coleman,
district secretary OF the Friends of
the Soviet Union.
Seenla Matlin, secretary of the
American League Against War and
Fascism in Los Angeles, also dele
gate to the Chicago Congress, is in
charge of arrangements for the
meeting and will preside.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20

lions" which they claim exist be-
tween the lynch lords and their Ne
gro victims. They claim, moreover,
that the Communist position "en-
dangers" the lives of the boys.
They conveniently ignore the fact
that the boys we're sentenced to
death before the Communist Party
began to rally the masses to their
defense, before the I. L. D. entered
the case. They put forward the
traitorous line Of combining the de-
Tense Of the boys within the bounds
OF bourgeois legality, within the
confines of the very lynch courts
which pronounced the death YER
diets.
Mass Fight Rips Lid of Negro
Oppression
They charge the Communists with
making propaganda out of the case.
We Communists plead guilty to the
charge of making the Scottsboro
frane-up means of exposing the
horrible persecution of the Negro
people. Scottsboro demonstrations
tours of the mothers against which
the Forward rages), have carried
the case around the world, rousing
millions of toilers, white and black,
to realization of the brutal OPP
preston of the Negro people, to
the fight for the lives of the boys
and for Negro liberation. The
ScottSboro case has become q part
Of every important struggle of the
workers in this country.
The fight for the Scottsboro boys
and for Negro emancipation is an
integral part of the election cam
paigns of the Communist Party
which, in one of the seven major
demands of its election platform
demands the unconditional and
safe release Of the boys, and calls
upon the toiling masses to fight
against jim-crowism and iynching,
for equal rights for the Negroes and
self-determination of the Black
Belt, for the Negro Bill of Rights
Sccttsbcro an Election Issue
We Communists leave it to the
masses, white and Negro, to decide
on the basis Of the evidence who
are the fighters for the Scottsborc
boys and the Negro people and for
the interests Of the whole working
class, and who are the betrayers Of
both the white workers and the
Negro people. We call upon al
fighters for Negro freedom ano
working class emancipation to vote
as they fight, under the guidance
of their Communist Party, and fol-
the election of its candidates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
Fire d for Activity
In Furniture Union

WARREN, Pa, Oct. 19.-An ac-
tive member of the Warren Local
106, of the National Furniture
Workers Industrial Union, Victor z.
Carlino, after having been employed
in the Crescent Furniture Co. as
a cabinet maker, was fired because
of his militant daily activity in or
ganizing the unorganized furniture
workers in Warren, Pa. The man
ager of the plant plainly told this
worker that he is being fired be-
cause you could not mind your own
business" meaning that Carlino
shouldn't mind the low wage scale
of So cents an hour for skilled me-
chanicS which is paid by the COM
pany to the Ito workers employed
in this plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20

Arrangement Committee Issues Call for National
Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance

and many similar measures fail to
make any of the necessary provi-
sions required OF a genuine social
insurance system. These measures
serve only to deceive and divide
those who aspire to a greater meas
ure Of social security.
AS against the forces that oppose
and seek to mislead, confuse and
divide the growing movement for
unemployment and social insurance,
we must now present the united
forces of all who need and all who
favor immediate enactment Of a
sound, comprehensive system that
will embody all the essential provi-
SOS for adequate social insurance.
To this end, we now join in calling
great National Congress for IN
unemployment and social insurance.
in Washington, D. G., January 5th,
9Th and 7th. This Congress, meet
ing at the time when the Congress
Of the United States begins it's 74th
Session, will serve to:
Bring together, consolidate and
demonstrate the great and growing
movement for Federal system Of
unemployment in social insurance.
Provide the possibility for jointly
formulating a comprehensive plan
for all forms Of social insurance.
Exert pressure upon the 74th
Congress of the United States to
act without delay upon such pro-
gram as is formulated.
Deepen, broaden and strengthen
the movement and devise program
for the necessary further struggle
that must be waged in order to win
a greater measure Of social security
through unemployment and social
insurance.
We cordially and earnestly invite
all who need and all who desire to
help advance a program OF ade-
quate protection against the haz-
ards of unemployment, industrial
accidents or sickness, old age and
maternity, to participate in this
congress by electing delegates from
their every organization. Let us
demonstrate that we are united in
the determination that those who
are willing to engage in useful la
Dor shall not be forced to suffer
hunger, want and dread of insecur-
ity In the midst Of plenty.
We call upon all national and
local organizations in all cities and
towns to join together in united
Congress Arrangement Committees
for the purpose of assuring united
efforts and struggle for uaemploy-
ment and social insurance. We ap-
peal to every interested individual
to begin Immediately the work OF
building a mighty, united nation
wide movement that will win for
the wage and salaried workers in
all industries, occupations and
localities of the United States, as
surance of decent existence and
freedom from the fear Of want and
restitution.
I. AMTER, New York, N. Y, National
Unemployment Council; PAT ANSBURY,
Buckner, Ill, Progressive Miners Of
America; ROGER BALDWIN, New York,
N. Y American Civil Liberties Union;
HARRY BAUMGARTNER, Illinois Progress
siye Miners OF America; MARY E. BEARD
SLEY, New York, The American Red Cross;
MAX BEDACHT, New York, NJ Y. Inter
national Workers Order: D. NJ. BENSON,
Tampa, Fla, Florida State Federation Of
Workers Leagues.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
Philadelphia Shoe Men
Strike for Wage Rise

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1s.-Pro-
testing 6o-hour week, and a wage
OF $3.50 day, in violation of the
code, which demands 48-hour week
at 81 a day, the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Union declared a
strike at the Red Rose Shoe Repair
Shop, Tenth and Ludlow Streets,
and threw picket line about the
place.
Police promptly took up their cue,
and arrested seven pickets includ-
ing the union organizer, Lippa.
They were Immediately released,
however at the instance of the In
ternational Labor Defense, whose
attorneys will defend the striking
workers when their hearing comes
up shortly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20

dent or sickness, and maternity
Congress must enact a system OF
federal unemployment and social
insurance which provides compen-
sation by the government and en-
ployers to all willing workers who
are denied the right to work.
An unemployment and social in
surance system must be designed
20 ensure the masses against any
lowering Of their living standards.
1t must serve to increase purchas-
ing power, stimulate productivity in
the interest of a higher living
standard and lead to necessary re-
distribution Of wealth that is with
held from circulation.
Therefore:
Compensation must be at least
equal to the average wages which
workers could earn if permitted to
work in their normal occupation
and localities. 1t must in no case
be permitted to fall below a fixed
minimum health and decency level.
Such compensation can and must
be provided by and only at the
expense of the government and the
employers. No contribution in any
form should be levied upon work.
ers and other low-income groups.
All workers, regardless of age, &C.
cupation, race, color, sex, nation
atty, citizenship, religious or politi-
cal belief, must be assured such
compensation for all time lost be-
cause of involuntary unemployment,
old age, industrial accident or
sickness, and maternity.
Representatives directly elected
by the workers should administer
the social insurance system so that
it would be operated in accordance
with their conditions, interests and
needs.
These principles have already
been endorsed by thousands of Or
CARNATIONS representing many mil
lions Of workers, farmers, profess
slonals and others whose Well-being
depends upon a comprehensive sys-
tenn Of social insurance. More than
2,40O locals, and the regular con-
ventions Of five International and
six State bodies Of the American
Federation Of Labor; practically
every known unemployed organiza-
ton; thousands Of railroad and
other Independent union local and
central bodies, fraternal lodges, vet
Grams, farmers, Negro, youth,
womenS and church groups have
expressed their readiness to support
these principles by endorsing the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill which embodies these
principles and was introduced in
the 73rd Congress of the United
States as HR. 1898. Under pressure
Of constantly growing demand for
such q system OF unemployment
and social insurance, municipal
and county governmental bodies in
seventy cities, towns and counties
have likewise endorsed the Work
ers Bill and memoralized Congress
for its enactment.
Reaf1rming our endorsement of
these principles, we also declare our
opposition to the many proposals
and measures that have been
brought forward as substitutes for
genuine unemployment and social
insurance. The Wagner-Lewis Bill,
the Wisconsin Unemployment Com
pensation Act, the Townsend Plan