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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-08
|. L. D. Picnic Attacked
nv Police i'm Alabama

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept T.
A picnic of the international Labor
Defense held outside of the city
limits here yesterday. was attacked
by county ce who threatened
the picnicker5 with machine guns
and arrested two Negro workers,
Robert Washington and Henderson.
Both are held in jail, although no
charges have been placed against
them.
The raid on the picnic is a ref1ec-
ticn of the terror which is now en-
veloping the entire state in the
effort of mill owners to smash the
TEXTILE strik-. Whats squads are
neine f~-----' 7'ts Of the
stat"
Solicit Subs fer the Daily"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-08
PICNIC TOMORROW

NEW YORK-"Der Arbeiter" the
only German anti-fascist newspaper
in America. will hold its annual
picnic tomorrow, in Hoffmanns
Park and Casino. 11I8 Havemeyer
Ave. Unionport. N. Y. pelham
Bay subway to Castle Hill Ave. or
Lexington Ave. subway to l77th
ST., then Unionport car to Have
never Ave.l, Admission is Is cents.
German workers cultural organizs-
tions will participate; refreshments.
Picnic starts at l o'clock in the
afternoon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-08
n. c. Negro Tobacco
Workers To Give ST
Weekly 10 Strikers
Special to the Daily worker

GREENSBORO. N. c., Sept. -
Although m-crowed by the lead
ers Of the United Textile Workers
here. Negro tobacco workers work
ing for miserable wages in the big
tobacco plants, have voted to con-
tribute 81 of their weekly wages to
help the textile strikers.
This fact has not received one
word of notice in any of the local
papers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-08
AFFAIR FOR ANTI-WAR
DELEGATES

NEW YORK.-The Committee Of
the Young Circle Clubs, affiliated
t. the American League Against
War and Fsccism, will hold house
party tonight at zoos E. It'll St.,
Brooklyn, to raise funds for sending
delegates to the Second United
States Congress Against War.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-08

Twenty thousand new readers
by Sept. 1st means 10000 addi-
tionsl recruits for organized class
struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-08
WHILE MANEUVERS QUICKEN TO SMASH WALKOUT;
STATES SPEED MOBILIZATION OF TROOPS AND POLICE
Reports Show Walkout
Is Rapidly Nearing
Full Tie-up
GORMAN SEES BOARD
Strike Chief To Ask for
Federal Troops ''To
Protect Strikers
BY Seymour Waldman
DAILY Worker wsshingtqn Burear)


WASHINGTON, Sept. T.
The Winant textile mediation
board this afternoon heard
u.T.W. strike chairman Fran
els j. German in the first
session since it's establish
ment this week by presiden-
tial decree.
Governor Winant asked us to
come here and give our side. We
didn't have time to go into the
matter thoroughly but we ex-
planned, in part, our side of the
controversy" German told news
pepermen Just after leaving the
Winder Building, quarters Of the
board. We're coming back at 10
O'Clock tomorrow morning to dis
cuss the situation" German added
He hurried away to keep an ap-
pointment with A. F. of L. presi-
utiiO Wllll5m Gree0.
Asked about the possibility of
calling general strike. German
replied: THE general strike is out.
l have no right to talk of a genera
strike. I'm a textile worker" He
also declared that there was no
mention of arbitration during the
conference with Winant.
German said that 1.-THE latest re-
ports are that the workers are still
coming out"
1t is understood that George
Sloan, President of the EMPLOYERS
Private Cotton Textile Institute
and chairman Bruere OF the MIRA.
Cotton Textile Industrial Relations
Board, will confer with Winant and
the two other board members to-
morrow.
fnaiiv Worker washi-gtr, Burea"N
WASHINGTON, Sept. T.
I'm spite of the police, the
National Guard and the en-
ployers' terror, the workers
are carrying out their con-
stitutional rights in picket
ing" Francis ]. German.
chairman of the United Textile
Workers CA. F. Of L. special strike
committee. declared here today
after reading the morning press
accounts of the Honea Path. S. c..
and other murder activities of the
mill owners mopping up squads
"All the violence has come from the
employers and the government" he
added.
The latest morning U.T.W. strike
total figures. German said. throws
us up to 100000 workers out" In
his formal statement he remarked
Continued on Pcge q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-08

While day-tO-day expenses of the
HerHdOn- ScottsbOro appeal and defense
mount, the halfway mark toward the
$4,000 needed was passed yesterday
with s7,517 contributed to date. Rush
funds to International Labor Defense,
80 E. 18th St., N. Y. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-08

Earn Expenses Selling Daily"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
One out of Four Jobless
in the Country, Federal
Committee Report States

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. o.
One out of every four wage earners
in the country today are unem-
ployed DIR. Edwin E. White, execu-
tive director of the Roosevelt Com
mittee on Economic Security de-
clared yesterday in a summary Of
data compiled by his staff.
Unemployment and economic In
security for the wage earners is an
inherent part of the social struc-
ture, the report said, in urging a
federal system of unemployment in
slrance to provide benefit payments
TO the present unemployed.
ANY program for economic Sc
curity must take into considera-
ton the millions who are now I'M
employed or on relief" the report
said. "At any time any employed
worker may become unemployed,
and unless he secures employment
within a comparatively short time
is likely to become dependent upon
public relief for support" the re-
port continued.
Basing its studies partly upon the
1880 census, the report further said
that millions of workers are I'M
employed even in times of pros
perity."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
Pecan Shelters Out
Again in Texas; Ask
New Piece Work Rate

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. F.P).-
Conflict again RACES in San An
tonio's pecan Smelling industry as
the result of new strike of Mex
lean shelters and crackers. These
workers, having won their demand
in August for wage of five cents
and six cents pound for shelters,
are now demanding seven cents a
pound straight for half-meats,
which must be picked from the
shells without being broken. This
task is more tedious than ever this
year, because the drought has
caused the nuts to be small and
hard.
The workers have no code be-
cause they are employed in an
agrarian industry. They have man
aged to secure their present wage
only because they have fought Bit
terly for it. Even now, with
better rates, they can average only
rs cents for an eight-hour day at
the most.
Mexican labor is the poorest paid,
and, next to the white labor, con-
stitutes the largest body of workers
in Texas. The pecan Smelling in
dustry imposes especially bad con-
ditions upon these workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
Spike SANDER Charge on
Unemployment Councils
In Clarion, Pennsylvania

CLARION. Pa. Oct. 22.-The
Unemployment Council here has
effectively stopped the slanderous
attack of Mayor Ostermayer, pup
pet of the Carnegie Steel Company,
who recently issued vicious state
ment to the press charging the
u ne ployed organization with
''racketeering" in relief orders.
Ostermayer spread the lie that
the unemployed workers were pool
ing their milk orders and forcing
contributions of so cents per order
from local milk dealers favored by
their patronage as a means of
building Council treasury.
A delegation elected by the I'm
employment Council called on the
mayor and demanded that he pro-
duce evidence to back up his charges
or retract his libellous statement.
OStermayer declared that he
would answer later, but admitted
that an investigation among the
milk dealers had failed to produce
any evidence to support his charges.
He has since attempted to hush
up the whole affair.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
Book Store Burning
Responsibility Laid
At Gov. OIsOn's Door

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. Oct. 22.-
Placing the responsibility for the
vigilante attack on the Workers
Bookstore at 6 South Third Street
on October is, when $500 worth Of
literature and 81 in cash were de-
stroyed. squarely on the city author
tiles of Minneapolis, the Communist
Party Of Minnesota in an open let
ter to Governor Floyd B. Olson.
accused him of encouraging the
development Of these fascist attacks
on workers organizations"
The letter points out that the
burning of the workers books is "a
challenge to the entire labor move
ment of the State" 1t demands
that Olson take the necessary
measures to apprehend those re-
sponsible for the organization Of the
raid and to prevent such raids in
the future"
The letter shows how Olson'S
ISLANDERS and attacks against the
Communist Party encouraged the
development of these attacks which
are openly called for by the CAPT.
talist press and the Citizens ALI
ance, the employers organization
responsible for the murder of the
striking truck drivers last summer.
1t calls on Olson to carry out his
demagogic promises to protect the
workers against fascist attacks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
Communist Voters Are Urged To Join The Party Ranks
Barring of C. p. Candidates
From Ballot in Illinois
Scored by Labor Defense

CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-The recent
action of the Illinois State authori-
ties in barring the Communist
Party from the ballot in the No
vember elections has been protested
by the membership of the Chicago
International Labor Defense in the
following resolution:
The International Labor Defense
Of the Chicago District, numbering
5000 members and 1000 affiliated
members, condemns the high
handed action of the State authori-
ties in barring the Communist
Party from the ballot. Under the
guise Of technicalities, the only
working -class political Party has
been ruled off at the time when
the terror Of the boss class and
the state authorities has reached an
unprecedented level
''The Communist Party in its pro-
gram calls for the repeal of the
Criminal Syndicalist Law and for
the rights of the Negro people, and
against terror. This is the only
Party that has these demands on
its platform. The working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
JobIess of East Side
Demonstrate Tomorrow
At Assemblyman's Home

The Lower East Side Unemploy-
ment Councils have called upon all
workers to assemble at Rutgers So.
tomorrow night at 7:3O o'clock for
a mass march to the home of AS
semblyman Samuel Mendelbaum, l
Scanned ST., to demand that he
support the demand Of the State
Hunger March which will converge
on Albany Oct. 81.
A workers delegation will de-
mand that he petition Gov. Lehman
to call special session of the State
Legislature for the enactment of
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill and appropriate sufficient
funds for winter relief.
The demonstration will be held
under the leadership of the Work
ers' Committee on Unemployment
Locals 2 and 3, the Rutgers So. Lo-
cal and the Knickerbocker Village
Local of the Unemployment Coun-
ellis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
so Campaign Meetings
Slated in North Dakota
By Communist Party

BISMARCK, N. D., Oct. 21.-
With a full slate of candidates for
national and state Offices, the Com
nluniSt Party election campaign in
North Dakota is in full swing now.
and so mass meetings are scheduled
for the last few weeks before cleo
ton day.
The seven principal candidates
who were selected by the State
nominating convention are:
Arvo Husa for U. S. Senator; Jas
per Haaland and Fife Kjorstad for
Congress; P. j. Barrett for Cover
nor; B. j. Holland for Lieutenant
Governor; Harry JUL for Commits
sioner Of Labor and Agriculture,
and AShbel Ingerson for Commits
Sioner of Railroads.
The Communist candidates have
proven their ability to win demands
for the farmers and workers of
North Dakota. by stopping fore
closures and evictions and leading
the fight for relief for the poor and
unemployed, and for fodder for
stricken livestock in the devastated
drought area.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23

and the farmers of the State of
Illinois, by the action of the State
officials Of the Democratic and Re-
publican Parties, are being deprived
Of their constitutional rights to
register their protests at the polls
against their miserable conditions
and the ever-growing attacks upon
their standard Of living.
1.-THE International Labor Defense
calls upon its membership, and all
workers that believe in the releas-
ing Of class-war prisoners and the
defense Of the right of the toilers,
to protest most sharply to Gov
ernor Horner against this attack on
their Party and for the immediate
placing of the Communist candi-
dates upon the ticket. We call upon
workers to hold protest meetings,
send delegations to public officials,
and to more than ever aid in the
casting of a huge vote on Nov. 6
for the Communist Party.
"A. NEWHOFF,
District Executive Committee,
International Labor Defense"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
Single Unemployed Men
Picket To ledo Relief
Office, Strike on Job

TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. 22.-Single
unemployed workers have been
picketing the Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration offices here for the past
week after their demands for rent
relief and groceries had been re-
fused.
The single men, in a united front
struggle under the leadership of
joint committee of the Single Mems
Protective Union, the Unemploy-
ment Council, the Marine Workers
Industrial Union and the Unem-
ployed Leagues, are demanding. in
addition to rent and relief, abolition
Of forced labor and the flop houses
and the removal of Lucas County
Relief Director Thompson, lieu
tenant of the National Guard.
A complete tie-up has been eff
fected on all the forced labor prof.
ectS on which the single men have
been forced to work 16 hours a week
in the parks and public buildings
In exchange for food and shelter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
Relief Workers Strike
on Columbus FERA Job

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. %
E1ghty-two workers walked off of
the Aim Creek F.E.R.A. lob here
last week in protest against bull
doing by the boss. A meeting was
held and committee was elected
to present the complaints of the
workers to the township trustees.
On the committee were workers
from the job, some who are mem
bers of the Ohio UNEMPLOYED
League, and three delegates from
the Unemployment Council.
Little, chairman of the commit
tee, and reported to be OF the Ohio
Unemployed League, took it upon
himself to exclude the Unemploy-
ment Council delegates from the
committee, without consulting the
workers who did the electing. When
the committee went to the trustees,
Little said that he represented no
organization, and that he had no
demands to make. Little also went
alone to Congressman Lamneck ito
interview him personally"
The workers on the committee
we're against Titles position and
will raise the question at the next
meeting as to his authority to go
against the decisions of the rank
and file.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
Veterans Plan Bonus March
To Reach Capital Jan. 10;
Viii Place Three Demands

WASHINGTON, Oct. PIT e
Veterans Rank and File Commit
tee has issued call for all veter-
ans to participate in a march
which will reach Washington on
Jan. 10. The decision was based on
the reports of committeeman, which
indicate national support for this
move as we'll as for the Three
Point Program adopted at the
Rank and File Convention last
May. The program calls for i'm
mediate payment of the balance
due on Adjusted Compensation Ger
tificates, repeal of the Economy
Act and passage of the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill.
In reference to the action of the
Disabled American Veterans in lay
ing aside the question of the bonus,
ostensibly in the interest of the dis
abled, the committee stated that
they considered this as weaken
ing of the broader fight for bonus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23

and veteran legislation. On the
resolution of the Veterans of For
eign Wars for united action against
the administrations stand on bonus
payment, 1t was stated that only
on the basis of all veterans or
CARNATIONS uniting and adopting a
common program without discrim-
ination as to race, color or creed,
organizational or political affilia-
tions, can real united action be eff
fected."
The committee issued a warning
that at its coming convention THE
American Legion leadership will at
tempt to keep this issue off the
floor. Whether a resolution for the
payment of the balance due on the
Adjusted Service Certificates is
passed or not, unless plan of &C
ton for carrying out such resolu-
tons is adopted, the bonus question
will again become a political foot
ball with the veterans receiving the
raw of the deal"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23

Communists
Plan Rally
Every Party NJ e m b e r
To Be at Election
Stations Sunday

CLEVELAND, Oct. %. = TIL e
Communist Party Election Cam
paign Committee is calling a special
city wide mobilization of all Party
members and sympathizers for
Sunday, Oct. 20, to canvass voters,
distribute special election edition
of the Daily Worker and election
campaign material and collect A.
nances for the election campaign.
Every Party member, from the
district organizer down, must be out
this Sunday. We urge all sympa-
thizers and members of mass or
CARNATIONS also, to report Sunday,
Oct. 28th, 9 am, at the following
stations.
1909 Lorain, Detroit--54 TWO;
1923 Detroit; 10515 Madison (Bul-
garian HalD; 1851 Auburn; 1905
Clark; 2645 w. 18th St.; 1895 Full
ton Rd.; 4457 W. 35th St.; 1865
Lakeview; 1926 Earl Ave; 900 E
10th St.; 56o7 st. Clair; 6615 Wade
Park; 535 E. 105th st.
14101 Kinsman Rd.; 11706 Kins-
man Rd.; 12701 Kinsman Rd.; 1851
Central; 1910 Woodland; seth and
Payne; 18th and Central, LS.NR.;
6414 Quincy, LID; 11123 Buckeye;
2765 E. 18th St.; 49th and Broad
way; 7o57 Broadway; 1858 Water
loo Rd.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
% Demand
Jury Trials
In Phoenix
Communist Candidates
Among Workers Jailed
After FERA Strike

PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 22.-Sepa-
rate trials we're demanded last week
by all Is workers who we're
arrested when police and deputies,
acting under the direct orders Of
Governor Moeur, an ex-Klansman,
attacked demonstration of unem-
ployed on Sept. 6 in order to smash
a strike of F. E. r. A. workers.
The twenty-eight workers were
scheduled to appear before Superior
Judge H. G. Speakman, but, in his
absence, appeared before Judge G..
A. Rodgers, who, indicating that he
had no jurisdiction over the case,
referred the arraignment to the
Superior Judge on his return.
Refusal of County Attorney REM
L. Jennings to prosecute the case
forced Governor Moeur to order the
Attorney General to personally ap-
pear against the workers, and the
arraignment was delayed until two
deputies from his office appeared
at the court house.
Judge Rodgers after stating that
the Attorney Generals office was
playing politics in the case, stated
that since all twenty EIGHT we're
charged with riot" he could not
understand why bail was fixed in
varying amounts for each de-
PENDANT.
The twenty EIGHT defendants are
Clay Naff, Communist candidate for
Governor; Ramon Garcia, Comnu-
mist candidate for United States
Senator; James Porter, Negro
worker and Communist candidate
for Secretary of State; Charles Nc
Call, organizer, Phoenix Local of
the Socialist Party; Elihu Mansfield,
Felix Guardia, James Sanchez.
Harry Mahle, Morris Urman, Jose
Florez, James Carr, Jose Barcenas,
Will Rose, Oscar Shepard, Charles
Bauman, Charles Wesson, Simon
Dalton, Hugo Nations, Harry
Broome, jim Harrison, Joseph Cas-
well, Clarence Phillips, Florentino
Costello, Mike Darr, William Broom,
Albert Eggert, Myrtle Harris and
Mrs. Ray Urman.
Thomas j. Croaff, once president
of the Arizona Federation Of Labor
and prominent labor attorney, will
defend the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
700 Workers
Stop Eviction
InDanville,Pa.
Sheriff Sales Face 200;
Unemployment Council
Plans Struggles

DANVILLE, Pa, Oct. 22.-Seven
hundred workers maSsed before the
home Of Herbert Buck here last
week and stopped an eviction de-
spite large mobilization of police.
Wholesale evictions face the
workers Of Danville due to the re-
fusal Of the relief administration
to provide rents for the ever grow
ing army Of unemployed. The evic-
ton of Buck was to have served
as a test case for the landlords.
Fully 200 families face eviction this
winter.
The local newspaper, working
closely with the plans of the big
landlords, stated that the workers
tried to mob" the constable. The
workers, however, attended the
eviction sale, and in an orderly
manner, prevented the eviction,
The police have issued warrants
against Harold Thomas, Herbert
Buck and Harry Snyder, and are
attempting to frame them as in the
case Of Phil Frankfeld, who is now
serving a two to four-year sentence
in Blawnox Prison for his activities
in behalf OF the unemployed Of
Pennsylvania,
The Unemployment Councils are
organizing employed, unemployed
and part-time workers to fight the
scheduled mass evictions, and de-
feat the plans of the police and
the big landlords.
All workers organizations have
been called upon by the Unemploy-
ment Councils to send protest reso-
lutionS to Police Chief Charles
Mong, Danville, Pa, and to Con-
stable Young, demanding the i'm
mediate release Of the three ar
rested workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
.JObless Miners
Before
Relief Bureaus
Demonstrations Held in
Pennsylvania Coal
Districts

SHAMOKIN, Pa, Oct. 22.-Un-
employed workers throughout
Northumberland County massed be-
fore the local relief stations Friday
demanding increased relief, issu-
ance Of winter clothing, payment of
rents and endorsement of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill by the relief administrators.
Demonstrations were held In
three towns, Shamokin, Sunbury
and Milton; and workers from
Northumberland and Ranshaw
joining in the demonstrations at
Sunbury and Shamokin.
In Shamokin, when Supervisor
Mooney refused to meet with the
workers delegation, a picket line
was established at the relief sta
ton and is being maintained until
demands are met. A committee
presented demands to Rev. Lehman
relief administrator, and forced en-
dorsement of the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill, and won
winter clothing and the promise Of
payment of rents. Work relief ad-
ministrator Mann promised to up
hold the relief workers right to or
ganize and bargain collectively.
In Sunbury, despite attempts Of
local politicians to disrupt the dem
onstration, the workers marched to
the relief station while thousands
lined the streets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
Miner Shows How NRA
Starves Coal Diggers

PITTSBURGH (F. P).-Just why
coal miners fail to get enthusiastic
about the widely-touted soft coal
code is explained by Thomas James,
coal miner, in a letter to the Pitts
burgh Press.
Although the wage scale has been
boosted to IS day, the average
miner can expect to work less than
100 days year, James states. His
annual earnings stack up to SAP.
If only a loaf Of bread and quart
of milk are bought daily for each
member of his family, that totals
s346.75 a year, leaving $685. for all
other expenses. From which de-
duct:
Union dues. s12; checkweighman
dues. s5.25; electric lamp, SO; ex-
plosives. $50; tool sharpening, s245,
That leaves 1855 for all other exc
penses.