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cause his religion forbade partici-
pating in military drill. The United
States Supreme Court comes out in
support of the militar.sts here. Stu
dents at Ohio State, at Kansas Ag-
ricultural College also have had
disciplinary measures taken against
them because of thei- anti-milita-
rist stand.
AS in the general field of struggle
for a better life so on the campus
has there been an attempt to set up
vigilante, fascist groups to smash
the progressive student movement.
These groups do not spring up
spontaneously; in nearly all cases
the college authorities appeal to
groups to wipe out the reds" The
ruling class is trying to use the stu
dents the same way Hitler used
them. AS shock-troops for fascisn,
In California students were en-
listed to scab on the longshoremen
in the recent strike.
Effective Action
Effective action on the part of
the National Student League forced
them to quit their dirty work.
American students can Clearly see
that fascism is not the way to bet
ter life from the experiences Of
Germany. There education is being
limited more and more to those who
come from the upper class. There
all college students must spend at
least one year in the barracks.
There all students must become part
OF the military machine. Clearly,
then the American student has be-
gun to take important steps for
ward. The students in other coun-
tries have been proceeding in the
same direction. In order to co-ordi-
nate these activities on world scale
the World Youth Committee
Against War and Fascism and the
World Student have called for an
International Student Congress to
be held in Lyons. France. at the end
Of December. In the United States
the Congress has won the support
of the National Student League. the
Student League for Industrial De-
mocracy, the Student Section of the
War Resisters League. Student del
egates are being elected in many
colleges across the country.
Already we know of delegates
elected at the Negro University
Howard, at the University of North
Carolina, at Dartmouth, California.
Columbia. Delegates are being en-
dorsed not merely by radical groups
in the colleges but as in the case of
Howard and North Carolina by the
entire student body as represented
in the councils. Teachers organiza-
tons, active in the fight against war
are being urged to send their rep
resentativeS.
The student is taking his stand.
Alongside of the fighting forces OF
progress.
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Florida A.F.L.
Joins in Drive
On Homeless
Gov. ShOltz Calls On
Police to Eject All
Transients

MIAMI. Fla, Dec. 13.-The influx
of unemployed workers into Florida
resulting from the announcement
few weeks ago by federal officials.
that all transients would be housed,
fed and given jobs, is causing great
CONSERVATION in the camp of lynch
Governor Sholtz
In letter to the officials of
Florida's 81 counties, Sholtz labeled
these workers as criminals and
called on the sheriffs to use drastic
action" to stop the march of these
homeless workers into the State. He
melted these officers to use violence
by telling them that their lives
we're endangered if they did not
stop the migration; after hordes of
these people are here it may be too
late" the letter states. Even the
highway inspectors were enlisted to
turn back all hitch-hikers.
The Miami News" organ of the
A. F. of L. of Florida, carried a
front page editorial under an inch
high headline, stop That job
Seeking Horde" calling on the po-
lice to keep out the unemployed
workers, but in order not to be mis-
understood, they defined clearly
who should be allowed in the State
as follows; Not that all the new
corners are job-seekers or crooks,
there are many who come to seek
our healthful climate and recrea-
ton, but there too are many of the
other kind; for safety and our
worthy visitors may go elsewhere
unless something drastic is done to
stop entirely or reduce this influx
of certain classes"
Only last week the Charleston,
S. C.. police seized 81 workers who
we're lodged at a transient camp
there, after taking their finger
prints the police held them in Jail
until the prints could be sent to
Washington to be checked for
criminal records"
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elected from the floor of each local.
Such convention, they declare, will
lay the basis for a real industrial
union controlled by the workers
themselves.
The aluminium workers can see
how Green wants to carry out the
A. F. of L. resolution on industrial
unionism." This resolution calls for
"the Executive Council to issue
charters for national and interna-
tional unions" in the aluminium,
cement and automotive industry.
After uph0Iding the craft union
principle, the resolution concludes,
I'm order to protect and safeguard
the members Of such unions char
tered, the Federation, for a provi-
sional period, shall direct the pol
itics, administer and designate the
administrative and financial officers
of the newly organized unions"
Green in the aluminium Industry
1t is clearly Green's purpose to
set up a dictatorship over the alum
mum workers in order to stifle the
growing rank and file movement in
the ALUMINIUM industry. His pol
icies are only too well known to the
aluminium workers as seen in his
agreement selling out the last strike.
A. #. Of L. Convention
Under this A. F. of L. Conf
vention resolution, Green has
the power to appoint all officers to
the union when the national union
Is formed, to dictate all the policies
of the union and to control its
finances. This would mean Green's
time-honored policy of no-strike, of
compulsory arbitration with the La
Dor Boards which, with Green's sup
port, have worsened the conditions
of the workers in the auto, steel
and other industries. 1t would mean
the red scare and expulsion of mill
tant workers from the union, such
as Green has attempted in all
unions. 1t would mean defeat of
the aluminium workers demands
and weakening of their union.
Green, through his agent Dave
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of work. There is no uniform wage
scale. Speed-up and lack of uni
form wage rates are among our
worst grievances.
Another rank and file worker told
how active union members are be-
ing shifted around from lob to lob
as one form of discrimination. One
worker who was in the plant for
seven years. was laid off recently.
the company claiming he lacked
ability" He was fired under the
ability" clause written into the
agreement by Green. Under this
agreement the union does not have
real recognition and the company
proceeds with discrimination. The
locals committees are fighting
against this discrimination.
The program OF the rank and file
for the building of the union under
rank and file control, is a program
Of preparation for struggle against
these conditions. A real industrial
union in the aluminium industry,
with an aluminium workers union
national convention within three
months as the first step, would
strengthen greatly the aluminium
workers fight, To fight discrim-
nation, company unionism, speed
up and low wages, the aluminium
workers must strengthen their
union with an organizing campaign.
Only the rank and file will do this.
Green, carrying out the industrial
union" resolution with his expul-
sion policy, his class collaboration
with the Mellon company, his no
strike tactics, would only defeat the
demands of the aluminium workers.
The rank and file program, the
strengthening and building of the
rank and file of the union itself,
will defeat the Mellon companies
attacks, will defeat Green's no.
strike policies and put the alu-
minum workers in position for
the coming struggle, and enable
them to win their demands.
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Williams, A. F. of l.. organizer In
the Allegheny Valley, has already
unsuccessfully tried to suppress the
rank and file through such tactics.
Williams would stick knife in a
Communist and then lick the blood
off the end of it, one rank and
file worker told me. williams was
unable to kill the rank and file
movement through his red scare
and only succeeded in descrediting
himself. His policy of cooperation
with the company has stirred in
tense dissatisfaction of the union
members.
The aluminium workers of New
Kensington are demanding a real
industrial union in the industry
with rank and file control, and
preparation for the coming struggle
as the only method of defeating the
company's attack on their union
and their living standards.
The Company Union
This attack is being demagogically
carried on. The company union at
tempts to masquerade as real
workers union" Nov. 5 leaflet dis
tributed by the company. I'VE are
not proposing a company union, -
the literature states. All of the lit
erature distributed by the company
to the employees carries this dema-
gogic note. Together with PAM
phlets and leaflets, the company
distributes application cards for
membership in the company union
outfit, the aluminium Workers Pro-
tective Association" 1t offers brides
to the workers in the form of sick
benefits. "One of the main pur-
poses of our proposed organization
-. to pay weekly benefits to the
workers when they are off work on
account of sickness, ETC., and draw
Ing no wages. We can be very
easily so organized as to be able to
pay member $40 to s12 week
during such periods of hardship"
The literature does not add that
this benefit is TO be raised by work
ers' contributions.
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Pickets Show
Viola lima AS
Fascist Agent
Cleveland Workers Ask
who Paid Hma's Fare
to Germany
Especial to the Daily Worker,

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 10. - A
picket line of the Youth Section of
the American League Against War
and Fascism greeted Viola lima at
her lecture yesterday noon at the
Hotel Cleveland, with signs reading,
Who Paid Ilma's Fare to Ger
many?" Tina Means Pogroms
Hunger, War and Fascism," lima
Is Hitler's Agent"
disappearing as an Abyssinian
princess, the would-be fascist leader
spoke on American youth before an
audience of $50 bejewelled ladies
who arrived for the lecture in
limousines and paid one dollar and
quarter admission to help Ilma's
racket.
Stating that American youth does
not want to organize, she made a
vitriolic attack on Communism and
coating her fascist aims with a pa
triotic camouf1age declared 1--WE
young Americans, motivated by
patriotism, must fight Commu-
nism." She praised highly the mill
tarization of the youth in the C.C.C.
camps where" she claimed, boys
are happy forging futures for them
selves" but became visibly embar-
raised when asked about her con-
nections with Nazi officials and
spies. and as to who paid her fare
to Hitler Germany. She evsdeo
these questions and hastily ad-
iourned the meeting before other
questions could be asked
The Cleveland branch of the
American League Against War and
Fascism is calling a conference fol
Jan. 81 to broaden it's activities
and plan educational and other
work. The branch already includes
AZ organizations, including sever
American Federation of Labor
locals, German Krankenkasse
Teachers Union, Amalgamateo
Clothing Union, etc.
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Chicago Workers School, which has
been singled out as the first target
In drive to destroy the elementary
rights Of the working class to Or
gani5e and carry on educational &C
tivitieS.
A campaign of protest delega-
tons, letters and mass meetings is
proceeding throughout the city.
Saturdays emergency meeting will
consider a plan of action against
Hearst and U. S. District Attorney
Dwight Green, who has threatened
to evict the school from its prem
ises and to arrest, prosecute and
deport instructors under the Fed
eral sedition law.
A city-wide mass meeting is be-
ing organized for Dec. % at the
Capital Building, with the follow
ing speakers: George Koop. mem
Der of the Typographical Union and
the Socialist Party; Rev. j. Carlson,
Of the University of Chicago; DR..
Arthur Falls, for the Urban League;
John Welick, of the Metal Polish
ers' Union and chairman of the
Chicago Section of the American
League Against War and Fascism;
Robert Minor, for the Communist
Party; Morris Fine, of the Young
Communist League, and Beatrice
Shields, Director of the Chicago
Workers School.
Besides the melting articles and
editorials in the Hearst press call
ing for the organization Of vigil
lantes and fascist violence against
the Chicago Workers School, the
Hearst press has prevailed upon the
agent of the premises occupied by
the school to attempt to evict the
school, despite two-year lease on
the premises.
Beatrice Shields, director OF the
school, in calling the emergency
meeting for this Saturday after
noon. pointed out that the drive on
the school is the forerunner OF
an organized campaign against the
rights of the working class
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The program of the rank and file
in the Aluminium Workers Union,
however, is showing the aluminium
workers the correct road-not the
boss controlled company union
which prevents real organization,
gives the workers no rights and en-
ables the employer to dictate all
conditions-but rank and file con-
troll of the Aluminium Workers
Union CA. F. of L. with militant
policy of struggle for their demands.
Organize the UnOrganized
The rank and file workers in the
Aluminium Workers Union know
that the question of organizing the
unorganized aluminium workers is a
key question at the present moment.
They know that Williams and other
Green agents had not made any
effective attempts to organize the
unorganized aluminium workers.
These Green agents have no inten-
ton of doing so. The rank and file
knows that in the face of the COM
pany's attacks the union must be
built into a 100 per cent organiza-
ton. The rank and file aluminium
workers propose more aggressive
organizing campaign, with organ
izing committees of the union
drawing in those not yet members
and activizing those who have
signed applications but who have
remained passive.
This organization drive, proposed
by the rank and file, is especially
urgent in view not only of the COM
pany union propaganda, but also in
view of the fact that at present the
economic conditions are far from
satisfactory.
The strike settlement" of Green
did not solve the workers grew
ances. 1.-THE efficiency and bonus
system is in full force" one rank
and file aluminium worker told me,
The revolutions of the machine
per minute are measured fire.
quently, Different rates per hour
are set for exactly the same kind
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Pittsburgh Unemployed
United Front Demands
Freedom for Frankfeld

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 13.-De-
mands for the further strengthen
ing of the proletarian united front
and for the release of Phil Frank
field. framed and imprisoned leader
Of the Unemployment Councils of
Western Pennsylvania. we're made
at the first mass meeting held here
under the auspices of the united
front of the unemployed orgsniza
tons.
North Side Carnegie Hall, where
the meeting was held, was crowded
to capacity, with the following or
CARNATIONS participating: Unem-
ployment Council, Unemployed Citi-
zens League, Independent Unem-
ployed Citizens League, Pennsyl-
vania Unemployed League, and the
Veterans Rank and File.
Plans were adopted, following a
report by the Joint Action Com
mittee of the unemployed organi-
cations for a monster parade and
demonstration in Pittsburgh on
Jan. 8.
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Aluminium Workers Demand Real Industrial Union Rank File
Control To Defeat Company Union Low Pay SpeeUp Green's

NEW KENSINGTON, Pa, Dec.
12.-The rank and file employees OF
Andrew Mellon in the aluminium
industry are now face to face with
the question of how the so-called
industrial unionism" resolution,
passed by the last A. r. of l.. con-
vention, is to be carried out in their
industry.
The last strike Of the aluminium
workers, led by the Aluminium
Workers Union CA. r. of L., thanks
to Mr.. Green's sell-out agreement,
has not solved any Of the grievances
Of the aluminium workers.
At the present time, the Alum
mum Company Of America, the
aluminium trust Of Mellon, with its
main plant here, is intensively prop
agandizing for the company union
and has begun discrimination
against active union members. The
economic conditions, Speed-up and
low wages, have not been bettered
Union recognition was not obtained
Growth OF Rank and File
The rank and file movement, In
the face of this attack of the COM
pany, and the attempt Of Green and
his agents to prevent any fight for
their demands, has grown rapidly.
The rank and file, in order to eff
fectively answer this company at
tack, demands a real industrial
union in the industry, controlled by
the rank and file. The union MEM
bership in ever greater numbers is
pressing forward the rank and file
program.
The fact that the rank and file
candidates for union office in this
weeks elections failed of election by
only score of votes shows that
the aluminium workers are alive to
the need for fighting program and
for rank and file control.
The same local meeting also
passed by an overwhelming major
ity, resolution demanding the call
ing Of a national convention Of
aluminium workers in Pittsburgh
within three months, with delegates
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Negro Sent to Chain Gang
In alabama for Possessing
Communist Party Leaflets
Is First to Be Convicted Under Downs Law-Was
Arrested at Home Three Weeks Ago By
Birmingham Officers in Raid

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. 13-
Mere possession of leaflets distrib-
uted here by the Communist Party
was held sufficient by Judge Martin
to sentence Fred Walker, militant
Negro workers of this city to the
chain-gang for six months. In adj
dition Walker was fined 500.
This conviction is the first under
the anti-working-class Downs law,
passed by the Birmingham Council
as part of the intensified drive
against the working class. The law
makes possession of more than one
copy of leaflets issued by workers
organizations crime.
Arrested at Home
Walker was arrested at his home
three weeks ago after a raid by the
notorious Red -baiters, detectives T
J. Moser and L. Cole. No literature
was found in his home, but at Walk
er's trial the prosecution presented
leaflets seized in a different raid
The International Labor Defense
has served notice of appeal and i:
endeavoring to raise the bond Of
$500 demanded for Walkers release
on bail.
On the same day, Circuit Court
Judge John P. Mccoy released Nor
man Virciglio, white, on two years
probation after a jury had recon-
mended a sentence of five years in
prison for the fatal stabbing of Will
Frank Means, an 18-year -old Negro
youth, last March. Virciglio had en-
tered a plea Of guilty of first degree
manslaughter by agreement between
his counsel and the solicitors office
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A motion by LID. attorneys for
new trial for Israel Berlin, white
worker, sentenced to six month and
$50 fine for distributing leaflets,
was argued today before Judge Nc
Elroy. The judge reserved decision.
These legal attacks on workers
rights are occurring on background
of fascist terror and Ku Klux Khan
raids on workers homes. Last Fri
day, the home of Dan Thomas, a
Negro worker, was raided by several
hooded terrorists, who beat up
Thomas and his son. The fascist
gang next proceeded to the home
of Steve Simmons, who was beaten
up two weeks ago by the same gang.
Simmons was prepared for them this
time. and frightened them away.
With mass indignation sweeping
the Negro and white working -class
sections of the city, the lynch rulers
are frantically mobiliziI g their re-
formist Negro henchmen in a drive
to disrupt the growing united resis-
lance Of Negro and white workers
against the terror. At a meeting
held here on Monday, Grand Chan
cellor oscar w. Adams Of the Col
ored Knights of Pythias urged up
on 400 members of the organization
loyalty and obedience to constit-
uted authority" The constituted
authority" of the lynch rulers, ex-
ercised in bestial violence against the
Negro masses, is thus loyalty sup
ported by the same reformist lead
ers who decry all violence of the
masses" in defense of their lives and
rights.
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Ford wage of 624z cents an hour, or
IS a day. They went to the fore
man and told him that when they
worked at the Dodge plant they
got 81 an hour, and would quit I'M
less they got raise. The company,
realizing that the men meant busi-
ness, fastened to increase their pay
to 30 cents an hour.
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Relief Is Cut in Half
In Jasper, Alabama

JASPER, Ala, Dec. 12.-There
has been so per cent slash in
relief expenditures in Walker
County for the week ending Dec. 1,
the weekly report of t. J. Payne,
disbursing officer, revealed. Total
expenditures for the week amounted
to only $7,67250, with 2,723 per-
sons on the relief rolls, and many
other unemployed workers, particu-
larly Negroes, denied any relief
whatever.
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lprlSS or IN LIl6 colonial countries LOOK
an active part in politics American
students had no interest in fighting
for their needs or for the needs
of the working class. The promi-
nent part played by the Russian
student movement before the revo-
luton and the heroic role of the
Cuban students who are fighting
alongside of the working class
against imperialist terror are ex-
amples. But it is well known that
in this country the student was sup
posed to be concerned with three
things: football, drink and petting
parties.
Many American students still
know of only football, drink and
petting parties but there is a grow
ing minority which is now con-
cerned with many other things. The
hard blows of the crisis not only
throws bricklayers onto the scrap
heap but makes unnecessary teach
ers, doctors and lawyers. Capitalism
can get along without education
for the masses. without health for
the masses. The growing struggles
of the workers and farmers have
affected the students, shown them
the need for struggle. The increase
in militarization has brought stu
dents face to face with situation
which resembled 1914 all too closely.
Great Advance Seen
From little over two years ago
when the first united front con-
gresS of students was organized in
America until today we have seen
solid advance in the struggles
against war. Under the leadership
Of the World Committee Against
War and Fascism and later of the
Youth Section of the American
League Against War and Fascism
the movement has enrolled wide
sympathies.
No single action is more sympto-
matte of this than the great stu
dent strike against war and fsscism
! OF April ID. With the Student
League calling upon their chapters
to build the unity from below it was
possible to draw $4,000 students out
of their class rooms in dramatic
protest against war preparations.
The success of this action shocked
the war-making government and
its agents. Hearst. Fish, Easley, etc.,
which had patiently worked to keep
the students sound" for military
purposes.
The strike action came in the
midst of whole series of confer
ences at about 10 colleges, universe
ties and high schools. Most of these
conferences accepted the program
of the Youth Section of the Ameri-
can League.
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FROST IN FLORIDA

TAMPA, Fla. Dec. 12.-For the
first time since 1906 snow fell here
yesterday. There were only few
flakes but the temperature had
dropped sufficiently to cause suffer-
ing among the city's unemployed. A
heavy frost was predicted for the
night. At noon the temperature was
"a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-14
Textile Strikers Force
Closing of Wollen Mill

SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass, Dec. 13.-
Textile strikers here scored an i'm
portant victory today with the an
nouncement that the plant of the
Hamilton Wooden Mill will close.
The announcement followed very
intense battle with state troopers
during which six strikers we're ar
rested. The workers then storrned
the police station in an attempt to
free the six arrested.