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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Chicago Worker DriUen Insane.
By Suffering, Slabs Case Agent
Relief Officials Threaten to Make Example of
Harassed Worker Whose Wife and Seven
Children We're Denied Relief

worker Saturday at the Spring St.
relief station.
The woman he stabbed has been
played up in the local gutter sheets
as the Ghetto Angel" as a gener-
Gus distributor Of relief, although
she won a promotion to senior case
work Of her station on the basis of
her work in reducing expenditures
Of the station.
Andy Neuhoff, district secretary
Of the International Labor Defense.
gave the following statement today
to the Daily Worker reporter:
Guerrero was driven mad by
the rotten condition his family was
in. While the I. l.. D. does not ap-
prove of individual action Of this
kind, we will fight to prevent the
railroading Of this worker by the
same ruling class that is responsible
for his mental condition"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17

into fascist storm troops.
The League must develop mass
struggle against the whole forced
labor system, demanding the sub
stitution Of these camps with jobs
at regular wages or unemployment
insurance. At the same time the
League must, on the basis Of the
united front from below, create
elected mems committees and or
CARNATIONS of these boys around
their specific grievances and for
regular rates of wages and the i'm
mediate ousting Of all army officers.
The best Y.C.L. mass workers must
be sent into these camps to build
the mass movement and through it
Y.CL. camp units. The number Of
camp papers issued by the Y.CL.
must be increased to include all i'm
portant camp areas.
The convention expresses its dis
satisfaction with the state of our
work among the young unemployed,
who constitute majority of the
working class youth. With the ex-
ception of few cities pittsburgh,
Minneapolis, Baltimore) the unem-
ployed youth movement has not
grown in the past months-it has
even declined Chicago, Detroit &.
This despite the fact that the posi-
ton of the unemployed youth is
worse than ever. This makes neces-
sary that we:
u Connect up the work In the
shops with the struggle for I'M
employment insurance; q Com
bat the still existing illusions that
Roosevelt will provide jobs for all;
81 Intensity the struggle for i'm
mediate relief on the basis Of de-
handing constantly higher cash
amounts for all youth, Negro and
white; a. Consolidate the move
ment organizationally through the
creation of youth committees and
clubs which not alone take up the
demands of the young workers,
but also provide certain sport and
cultural activity; 81 Work in the
A. F. Of L., Independent Unions,
Y. M. c. AS, Settlement Houses,
youth clubs, etc, to get endorse
ment for Bill Fl. r. 1898 and to
set up unemployed committees to
fight for immediate relief.
el Every League Member Must BE
Fighter for the Rights of the
Negro People
The Convention declares that any
underestimation or neglect of the
struggle for the rights of the Negro
people effectively gives aid to the
white-chauvinists. The League must
lead the fight for full political and
social equality for the Negro youth
and against every act of discrimina-
ton or segregation This can only
be done by first of all intensifying
the struggle against the remnants
of white clauvinisn in the ranks
of the Y.C,L., and by counteracting
the influence Of Negro nationalism.
The League must help build up
the broadcast movement of Negro
and white youth for Negro liberia
ton through the building of the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
and Young Liberator clubs as youth
sections. The white youth must be
in the forefront of the struggle for
Negro rights, militantly defending
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Buffalo Aero Strike Wins Wide
Support Despite Sharp Terror
Of Bullets, Tear Gas of Police

ers who we're wounded in the leg
were only the victims Of flying
pieces Of metal and scraps from
bursting tear gas bombs.
The sentiment of the strikers is
This is only beginningl' Greater
picket lines are expected to follow.
The AeronsuticaI Union issuing
a call for a "Support-the-strike"
conference Sunday, 2 p. m. at
Orioles Hall, declares that - VIC
tory for the aero workers is a vic
tory for all the working class. -
Support for the strike grows daily.
At the last meeting Of the radio
workers, Federal local, members Of
which are workers or the Colonial
Radio Company, it was voted to
delegate 900 workers to picket with
the aero strikers after work. Fifty
dollars were donated.
Marine, Metal Unions Aid
Energetic supporters Of the strike
are the Marine Workers Industrial
Union, which dispatched hundreds
Of seamen in trucks to picket, and
the Steel and Metal Workers IN
dustrial Union, which is actively
organizing support in metal shops
close by for support Of the strike
and for betterment of their own
The Riverside Unem-
ployed Council, enjoying wide pop
ularity because it has conducted
many victorious struggles for more
and better relief, has rallied large
Of unemployed workers in
the vicinity Of the strike for pick
citing and active support.
Workers from nearby shops
gather daily at the picket line after
work, shouting in support of the
strikers. In an effort to prevent the
spread Of the strike wave, en-
ployers in many metal shops In the
Back Rock-R Riverside section of
Buffalo have given wage increases
from 5 to Is per cent. This does
not prevent the onward march of
organization, but only serves TO
show these workers that it was the
organized action of the aircraft
workers that brought about the
Bosses SANDER Workers In Ads
A series Of advertisements, sup
posed to be paid for by group of
civic-spirited citizens" and entitled
Labor VS.. Education" are appear
ing in the local press, aimed at iso-
lating mass support from the strik-
ers. The huge ads are vicious in
their attacks against the strike, and
carry the usual hokum about "the
fair name of the fair city of Buff
falo has been blotted, blah, blah."
The civic spirited citizens" expose
as people very closely
with the capitalist clique
in town, when they write you are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Organizer Is
Upheld Against
Custer Hove


Smiths strike policies, Anderson
cited Smiths wire to the National
Labor Board March IA, declaring
that a strike in the auto industry
would be "a national calamity" He
quoted from the press to show how
on the eve Of the recent tool and
die strike Smith talked general
strike, but made no real effort to
give the striking tool and diemakers
the support he promised them,
leaving them to fight a lone battle.
Smith crawled before the manu-
facturers. He gave away half of
the demands before the strike even
started. Smith rejected united
action to win the strike. Anderson
brought out, but instead resorted to
secret diplomacy which confused
the workers and resulted in gen.
eral Generalization. Finally, he
ended the strike without consulting
the strike committee.
The Michigan Stove men were
green, but they put up a good fight
against great Odds" Anderson said.
But they got no help from Smith.
Smith is responsible for leading
the Michigan Stowe and the die
makers strike to defeat. The lead
ership the men got was lousy"
Workers Applaud Anderson
Applause broke out at this state
ment
Summarizing, Anderson said:
'~The issue Is not one of indi-
viduals, but of basic principles,
of which road the MESA will
travel, the road Of the corrupt
A. F. Of L. officials, which none
of as want, or the road Of mill
tant unionisIn. The road of
Smith is the road of the A. r. Of
L. officials"
The defeat Of Smith at this
meeting shows that the MESA rank
and file has begun to rouse itself
despite the shady maneuvers Of the
Smith clique. This victory must
be followed up with the demand for
the immediate reinstatement Of
John Mack and for an end to the
expulsion and suspension policy.
The constitutional convention Of
the MESA is taking place in Detroit
on May a. Smith and his pals
may try to insert one Of these A. F.
Of L. anti-red clauses in the con-
stitution. But if the rank and file
really Joins together under the
leadership of the Progressives, this
move, can be defeated, along with
the reactionary splitting policies of
Smith and the MESA membership
can be won for the program Of
militant unionism and militant
leadership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Shady Smith Maneuvers
Exposed, Splitting
Tactics Defeated

DETR OFT. - Matthew Smith,
general secretary of the Mechanics
Educational Society of America,
and his machine suffered q serious
defeat when at a meeting Of Local
7 Of the MESA Friday night the
members voted, SO to 81, to repudi-
ate the action of the District Com
mittee in suspending John Ander-
son, fighting organizer of the local
and leader of the militant forces in
the union.
The real sentiment of the rank
and file was demonstrated in the
thunderous applause that greeted
Anderson and in the booing Of
Smith and his henchmen. 1t was
further revealed in the testimony
Of workers from the Ternstedt
plant, from Midland Steel Products
Co. and from clayton 81 Lambert,
who came forward to defend An
derson and to pay tribute to his
militant leadership of their strug-
giles.
The Smith leadership Of the M. E.
S. A. launched campaign to ex-
pei all Communists and other mill
tant workers from the organization
about three weeks ago to cover up
the loss of the strikes of tool and
dismskers and of the Michigan
Stove Co. workers and to smash
all opposition to the disastrous poll
oles Of the Smith machine. Smith
initiated the campaign by having
John Mack, another leader of the
Progressives in the M. E. s. A.,
thrown out bodily from meeting
Of his local and turned over to the
police. Both Mack and Anderson
were suspended by the Smith-eon-
trolled District Committee in fla
grant violation Of the MESA. con-
stitution which provides that a
member can be suspended only by
two-thirds vote of his local.
The Executive Committee Of An
derson's local voted unanimously to
recommend to the membership to
reinstate him. The Smith machine
sent out postcards to all the mem
bers before Fridays meeting of Lo-
cal 7 charging that "a small group
of men parading as members Of the
MESA. are wrecking your organ
ization" and calling on them to
"olean house."
Smith opened the trial by attack
ing Anderson, charging him with
being member Of the Communist
Party, which, he said, was trying to
destroy the MESA. He made a
venomous attack on the Daily
Worker, charging 1t with distorting
facts, and defended his own treach-
erous policies.
Smith posed as the great nego-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17

resist war and when war comes to
transfer the imperialist war into
civil war against American i'm
periaHsm and for the establishment
Of Soviet Power. The Y. c. L. must
also take the lead in exposing the
various pacifist movements ("Y's,"
Church, etc. and must also expose
those who use left" phrases about
answering war with general strike,
etc.
One of the most important tasks
of the Young Communist League is
the struggle against capitalist mill
tarism. The League must fight to
abolish the r. o. T. c. and National
Guard and must conduct work in
the army and navy and in the r.
o. T. c. National Guard and G. M.
T. c., with the aim of winning the
bulk of these youth against war and
fascism and for support Of the
struggles of the working class.
y Work Among Farm Youth
The work started among the farm
youth and the successful farm
youth conference held in North and
South Dakota, Wisconsin and Ne
braska are the first beginnings to-
ward winning the broad masses OF
farm youth. In our farm work IL
is necessary to pay much more at
tention TO the young agricultural
laborers. especially in the West.
The task of the League is to draw
the farm youth into the struggle Of
their parents against taxation, for
cancellation Of debts and against
foreclosures and evictions. We must
in addition fight against the inner
itance of debts which for millions
of farm youth means actual serf-
dom. The Youth Sections of the
United Farmers League must be
broadened and built into mass
movements, and youth sections must
be started in the Holiday movement
and other mass farm organizations.
Special attention must be paid to
penetrating the All clubs and the
Grange and to counteract the
vicious activity of the Silver Shirts
and other fascist groups.
j For Mass Children's Movement
Although our children's movement
has grown considerably since our
last convention, it still represents
small percentage of the children
under our direct influence. The Y.
G. L. convention instructs the en-
tire League, each unit, section and
district, to;
(a) Strengthen the leadership
of the children's movement by as
signing more capable forces, espe-
cially young workers and Negro
youth. tb) Together with the
Party and mass organizations de-
veIop a mass struggle against child
misery and child exploitation.
The center of all our work must
be the Young child laborers and
the schools. (o) Children's
groups must be established with
the help of the Y. C. L. alongside
Of all adult and youth mass or
CARNATIONS and alongside all Y,
G. l.. units. tdl Much more at
tention must be given to building
chiIdren's movement alongside
the trade unions and to counter
act the activities of the Scouts
among the children-winning
these children for our leadership.
(Contirued on PAGE ~
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U. s. A., FOR PRE.CO INVENTION DISCUSSION

we are to endeavor TO get repre-
sented on the councils Of clubs and
win the bulk of clubs for our pro-
gram. Here, too, we are to fight
against discrimination of Negro
youth, for the right to elect House
officers, etc.
In both the Settlement Houses
and ''Y's" our main concentration
must be upon the factory youth
and for this reason comrades must
be sent into the Industrial "Y's"
and the Settlement Houses in in
dustrial areas. In these mass or
CARNATIONS we are to set up func-
tioning Y G. L. units whose main
task is to win the majority of youth
in that organization.
HI Broaden the United Front
Against War and Fascism
The convention greets the steps
taken by the National Committee
to help build broad united front
youth movement against war and
fascism The Youth Section of the
American League Against War and
Fascism has grown considerably
and involved many new masses of
youth C'Y's," Settlement Houses,
Church groups, student organiza-
tions). Tt, however, must be built
now to a greater extent in the war
industries and ports, as has already
been begun in Baltimore, where
five ship committees have been
established. Committees against
war must be set up in every i'm
portant shop and in mass organiza-
tons. The whole movement must
pay major attention to struggle
against the production and espe-
cially shipment of ammunition to
Japan or Germany. More attention
must be given toward winning
larger sections of the Y. P. S. L..
for the united front.
The Y. G. L. must strengthen the
work Of its fractions in the sports,
student and language youth move
ment-especially in the Labor
Sports Union. The L. S. U. must
be broadened into a real sport
movement appealing to American
young sportsmen. This means
special attention to work in the
sport organizations controlled by the
capitalist class who today influence
or control the majority of sports
men. In the National Student
League the Y. G. L. members must
work to build this into the broadest
mass movement among American
students. Special attention must
be given to the struggle against the
r. o. T. c., and Y c. Lers must
work from within the r. o. T. G..
to win the youth for our program,
More attention must be paid to-
ward winning the working class
students in High Schools, Evening
Schools, etc. The League must also
give more attention to the building
Of the Youth Section of the Inter
national Workers Order and the
youth sections of the language mass
organizations which have grown in
the past year considerably and if
utilized correctly can aid the
League in its work of penetrating
the factories.
Through the building of the
united front against war and fss-
cism the Y. c. L. must indie
pendently come to the masses of
youth with its full Communist pro-
gram. It must prepare tFfe youth to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
NJ assed Picket Lines
EncircIe Struck
Factories

BUFFALO, n. z, May 16-At
the same moment Curtiss and Con-
solidated officials sat in conference
with the National Labor Board in
Washington, police and deputies Of
two towns, a city and county we're
attacking from 1000 to 5000 strik-
ers and supporters in a vicious eff
fort to break up the militant picket
line and rush strikebreakers out of
the Curtiss plant, late Monday
afternoon.
Singing Solidarity Forever" the
spirited picket line, largest since the
strike began seven weeks ago, was
a fighting answer to the COM
panies' ultinatum to the strikers to
return to work or lose their jobs.
The strikers and their supporters
were lined up four abreast for a
quarter mile in front Of Curtiss,
with a three-piece band Of strikers.
Y. NJ. C. A. House Scabs
Moving vans carrying scabs came
out Of the plant, surrounded by
motorcycle police and scout cars.
Travelling at high speed, they swept
past the picket lines on their way
downtown TO the z. M. G. A. Men
Hotel and Worth Hotel. Then
began the procession of taxis and
private cars, loaded with imported
and few local strikebreakers. Only
a few got by, and the rest came to
a halt, when police provoked a
fight by hitting a woman picket.
The cops turned on the men,
women and child pickets and began
their attack. Swinging their clubs
in all directions, mounted cops
drove a large number Of pickets
into nearby fields, striking many.
Coming together again in the fields
the pickets defended themselves
braYely and answered with a volley
Of rocks and stones. Tear gas was
brought into play against the picket
line, which now numbered close to
four thousand.
Not succeeding with tear gas, and
finding that a shower of eggs, many
filled and sealed over with am
monia, greeted them. the Buffalo
bulls turned on the hose full force
into the mass of pickets, drenching
men, women and children. Even
this could not drive off the pickets.
Scores we're arrested, m any
dubbed and then arrested. Strikers
taking pictures Of the police brutal
ity became the target Of the cops,
proving that the police were the
aggressors in provoking the fight,
Local papers claim that the strik-
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training for all youth between Il
and 10 years Of age with full pay
under trade union supervision.
State support at no less than SO
per week for all child Iaborers
under IA now employed"
The league must become a great
er force in winning youth for the
revolutionary trade unions espe-
cially marine, steel and packing. 1t
must become the main driving force
in building unions in youth in
dustries such as radio, telegraph,
etc. Youth sections must be estab-
lished in the shortest possible time
in the revolutionary unions (espe-
cially steel, marine).
The convention emphasizes to the
whole league that without work in
the A. F. of L., it is impossible to
win the working youth for revolu-
tionary class struggle. In these
unions, especially in mining and
textile, we must help to create rank
and file opposition and to expose
the betraying policies of the reac-
tionary leadership on the basis of
concrete issues of struggle. In
these unions we must wage a fight
for lower limitations for young
workers, the right Of youth to join
all unions, the right of youth to
hold office and for the election of
youth committees and the creation
of youth sections Gas has been
started in steeD.
A task of tremendous Importance
especially in the basic industries
(steel, auto) is to expose and smash
the company unions and their in
fluence among the youth At this
moment it is especially necessary
to utilize the fact that the COM
pany unions (steel-auto) prohibit
youth under 81 from voting and
those who have been less than a
certain number of years in the
plant from holding office, to
further expose the character of
these unions" We must at the
same time work within the COM
pany sport teams and clubs to win
the youth for smashing the COM
pany union and must also create
teams and clubs under rank and
file control to counteract the ac-
tivity of the company unions,
In the Independent unions our
Y. G. L. comrades must fight for
the adoption of class struggle
policy, for the election of rank and
file militant workers to office,
against utilization with the A. F.
OF L., and for close cooperation and
solidarity with the unions of the
Trade Union Unity League. We
must have the perspective of work
ing forward to the creation of one
Independent trade union center
based on class struggle policies.
d. Against Forced Labor-For I'm
employment Insurance and In1ne-
diate Relief
While the Y.CL. alone of all or
CARNATIONS has brought program
to and led the struggles of the
Youth in the C.C.C., most districts
still seriously neglect work in these
camps, resist sending forces in them
and underestimate the role of these
camps not alone in creating a re-
serve for war, but as means of
creating a force against the growing
struggles of the workers at home.
The creation by the government of
the Forest Legion" is a step in
the direction of turning these boys
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(sl Struggle Against Roosevelt
Program of War and Fascisn
THE League must intensity
i the struggle for the daily
needs of the youth, especially
at the concentration factories,
and through it unmask the
Roosevelt government which
behind democratic phrases is
actually leading toward fascism.
The experiences Of the youth with
the N.R.A. and the strikebreaking
Labor Board, must be used to
arouse them to defend every one
of their rights-to strike, organize,
picket, demonstrate, etc. We must
struggle against the burocracy of
the A. F. of L. which actively
supports Roosevelt, and also against
the Socialist leaders who confuse
the masses as to the real aims of
the Roosevelt program and thus
help pave the way for fascism,
We must answer every chauvinist
act directed against the Negro
people, every attempt to terrorize
the militant workers and farmers,
Negro and white Mass defense
groups must be built and where
necessary special youth defense or
CARNATIONS should be created (Cal-
formal.
The whole League must be
aroused against the imminent dan
ger of new imperialist war,
especially tho danger of an at
tack upon the Soviet Union. We
must constantly expose the pacifist
phrases of Roosevelt by showing
the actual preparations of war.
We must struggle against every
act of American imperialism d.
rected against the colonial peo-
pies Cuba, Philippines. We must
popularize the peace policy of the
Soviet Union among the masses
of youth and show them its revo-
iutionary character. The broadcast
masses of youth must be won for
us defense of the Soviet Union
and the Chinese Soviet Republic
(b) Make the Shop Revolu-
tionary Fortress
In spite of certain improvements
In the past year in applying the
policy of concentration, the whole
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DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau

AD0hF WoAhCA nAA1HS9N 0NA SeNf
CHICAGO, May 1e.-The fun
force Of capitalist "justice" is being
launched against Andrew Guerrero,
who was driven insane BY the hun
ger and misery Of his family and
stabbed a case worker who had cut
off his relief. Robert Durham,
high relief official, has stated that
an example would be made Of Guer-
riero. He has already been so
badly beaten in the Maxwell st.
police station that he had to be
removed to a hospital.
Guerrero, who has seven chill
dren from six to 20 years old, has
had no source Of income for four
years except meager wages Of Sc to
81 week which one of his daugh-
tiers earned, attacked the social