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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-17
Chicago Futures Range

Loca, Wagon wheat
City grain elevators are paying 90 cents
fer No. 2 soft red wheat Other grades
on their merits
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-17
Chicago Stocks

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-17
LOCAL LIVESTOCK
Receipts, 800; Market. Steady

1o0-13o) Good and CHOICE. 5000 60
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
Meat Packers In
Allentown Strike
Communist Party Urges
Spread of Walk-Out

ALLENTOWN. - The Communists
Party here has issued leaflet TO
the workers of the Ardegast and
Bastian plant, greeting them on the
splendid strike they are conducting
for better conditions.
The leafet points out that If the
electricians and other workers con-
tinue to work this will weaken the
strike. The workers should attempt
to spread the strike to Swifts, Will
sons and Steinmetz plants here, the
leaflet says, warning the workers to
beware Of the arbitration schemes
Of the N.R.A., which has sold out
the workers Of Detroit and other
centers.
The leaflet advises the strikers
to enlarge the strike committee and
to allow only this committee to
speak for the strikers. 1t urges
mass picket lines as opposed to the
smaller ones advised by reactionary
union leaders.
This 1eaf1et was also distributed
to the workers in other packing
houses in the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
Workers Answer Terror
With Picket Lines,
Demonstrations

CINCINNATI. Ohio, May 9. q
A wave of terror is unleashed in
Middletown to break the FERA
strike of 1900 relief workers in
Butler County. now On its fourth
week. Scabs from Middletown were
sent to work on Thursday, May to
a hamlet near Middletowr con-
trolled by Mayor Stuart, owner Of
the Oakland Canning Co. The
mayor is eager to keep the wages
Of the workers in his shop down,
hence his opposition to a wage in
crease for the FERA workers. Prior
to the strike the FERA workers Of
Middletown were only making Is
cents an hour; now the officials
throughout Butler County are eager
to have the workers return to work
for 40 cents an hour. The strike
has already won a wage increase.
The Relief Workers Protective
Union has won full relief to all
strikers, stopped the intended relief
cut, and won representation on the
complaint board
When the scabs started to work,
a mass picket line was Immediately
formed by the Middletown workers
and they made solid wall on the
road to prevent the transportation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10

of scabs to the job. Thereupon the
Mayor of Monroe had 40 Of the
picketing workers arrested. In the
court the usual formal court pro-
cedure was brushed aside. The
workers we're not asked by the
court whether they were innocent
or guilty, whether they want jury
trial, nor was there any prosecu-
ton for the case. Workers were
kept "a hours in Jail without food
or water. likewise an expectant
mother was locked up. Mayor
Stuart refused to have the workers
released on bond.
Hold Mass Meets
A mass meeting in protest against
the arrest was held in Middletown
on Friday. May 4, by the mothers.
sisters and wives Of the arrested
workers. The workers showed ire
mendoUs enthusiasm at this meet
ing. They pledged to intensity the
strike struggle. These workers, who
heretofore had illusions about the
kindness of their government have
learned from this arrest a very
valuable lesson; that the city gov
eminent is part of the machinery
used by the employers to Cypress
the workers. These workers have
heartily accepted the Relief Work
ers' Protective Union as their or
ganization, and have begun TO iso-
late from their former leaders,
Barker, spokesman for the A. F.
! of L. and Scoty, Socialist Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
Two AL Dist.
Councils Act
on HI. r. 1898
Penna. Federation, A
F. L. Locals Support
Workers Bill

NEW YORK.-Two District Coun-
ellis of A. F. of L. Unions, and one
Federation of Labor have recently
endorsed the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill (HR. 1899
The Carpenters District Council
the Painters District Council OF
Kansas City. Mo, and the Hazel
wood pittsburgh Pa. Federation
of Labor, which includes six locals
of the Railroad Brotherhood and
the Blacksrniths and Boilermskers
of the A. F. of L., are the latest
city A. r. of L. bodies to add their
names to the growing list Of en-
dorsements.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners Local 1929, of Independ-
ence, Mo, Millmens Local 1885 Of
Kansas City. Mo, the Brotherhood
Of Painters Local SIS Of Dearborn
Mich, the International Machinists
Local 400 Of New York, and the In.
ternational Woodcarvers Association
Of New York are the latest Ameri.
can Federation Of Labor Locals II
take action on the Workers Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
Butler County Strikers Resist Rising Police Terror

flunky. On the following day, May
5, when the trial of seven of the
arrested workers Of Middletown was
held, the court room of Monroe
was jammed with workers from
Middletown and delegation from
Hamilton. The mayor this time
changed his tune. Although the
workers had no attorney, they
spoke for themselves in court.
They forced the mayor to give them
a jury trial, although he insisted a
| jury trial for next Wednesday
May 9.
A protest meeting TO demand the
freedom of these workers will be
held in Middletown on Monday
afternoon and in Hamilton on Mon
day evening On Wednesday, a
Joint parade Of Hamilton and
Middletown workers will be held,
marching in one body to Monroe.
where the trial Of the workers will
be held.
In Monroe an ordinance was
passed that no groups, even as
small as three, can congregate on
the street.
officials Deputize Thugs.
1t is rumored that the officials
are making another ATTEMPT to
break the strike. They intend =
send scabs on the jobs-who will
be deputized thugs. The strikers OF
Butler County are ready and made
all preparations to defend their
strike-a strike for bread and milk
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
N. Y. Hatters Vote to
Demand Pay Increase
from Manufacturers

NEW YORK -Member of Local
8, of the United Hatters Union, at
a shop conference. held in Bee
thoven Hall last Tuesday, voted to
demand wage increases from the
hat manufacturers.
The matters are demanding an in
crease of rs cents a dozen for
finishing, q 10 cent increase for
Hanging. and an increase of S. q
week for weekly help They are also
demanding increases for finishing
snow hats, and Is cents increase
for nine line band hats.
The final vote on these demands
will be taken at a general member
ship meeting. Wednesday, May 16
at 4 pm, at Beethoven Hall. This
meeting will decide on the date OF
presentation Of the Bill of Prices
to the manufacturers and also the
length of time the latter will be
given to answer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
Build ALL. Rank, File Opposition!
ancy of Rank and File Delegates Chicago Show the Possibilities;
The Party Must Improve Its Work
derestimate the Importance Of this

: derestimate the importance Of this
question"
These remarks are very timely
and fit into the situation in Chi
cago. There must be an end not
only Of the policy as presented by
Comrade lack of Cleveland, of alb
staining from work in the A. F.
of L.. but it must be simultaneously
! combined with the struggle against
| legalism and fear of going outside
Of the frame Of legal boundaries set
by the burocracy. The revolution
airy struggle inside Of the A, F. of
l.. must be carried out on the basis
of mobilization Of the membership
for the class program against the
program Of the bosses, carried by
the officialdom, that is, based on
the class struggle, building revolu-
tionary opposition, developing the
revolutionary trade union move
ment inside of the A. F. Of L. and
Railroad Brotherhoods sin1ultane-
ously with building unions Of the
T. U. U. L. and independent class
struggle unions.
There is no contradiction in this.
They supplement each other. At
this stage Of development, as far as
Chicago is concerned, the mator
problem, the major task is to in
crease tenfold the activities in the
trade unions, which means that
every eligible member Of the Party
is to become a member of the trade
unions "a. F. Of L., T. U. U. L..
Railroad Brotherhoods, independent
unions. That the comrades in the
unions are to be organized into we'll
functioning fractions, butldIng
around them rank and file move
ments around the issues and for the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill, H. r. 1893, increased wages,
shortened working week, against
inhuman speed-up, against high
dues, against dropping of members
for non-payment Of dues due to I'M
employment, for workers democracy
in the unions and fighting for every
elective post in the unions.
We must not adopt a defeatist
attitude that we cannot win in the
A. F. Of L. 1t is possible and it
can be done. We can win locals
and even delegated bodies. Ma
turally, We have no illusions of
winnin gthe burocratic apparatus
but this burocratic apparatus can
be defeated once we are able to
rally masses Of workers behind the
program Of demands, and develop
ing mass struggles for those de-
mands.
These problems, together with the
struggles for the right TO strike anc
organize, represent the main line
and work inside of the A. F. of L
which must be concretized In each
local. This we recently began Il
carry out in the city of Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
Federal Action
Asked in Fight
To Free Mooney
To Bring Case Before
U. s. Court in Latest
Legal Action

SAN FRANCISCO, CaIif.-The re-
lease of Tom Mooney on writ OF
habeas corpus was asked Tuesday
by attorneys in the first attempt to
bring the case before Federal
court The petition, 10 pages long
with 500 pages of additional evil
dence added, was presented in the
U. S. Court for the Northern Dis
trict of California by George T.
Davis.
Statements by the ten surviving
members of the jury which origin
ally convicted Mooney are included
in the statement given the court
They say, Had the evidence sub
sequently discovered, which the Dis
trict Attorney suppressed, been be-
fore them they would not have con-
victed Mooney" The statement OF
Judge Griffin, presiding Judge, that
had the jury nevertheless con-
victed Mooney he would have set
the conviction aside" is also in
Guided in the petition.
The brief cites the evidence dem
onstrating that Tom Mooney was
convicted on perjured testimony and
that Charles Fickert, District At
torney, was accomplice to the act.
According to the laws of Cali
fornia there is no way by which the
conviction Of Mooney can be set
aside, even after the overwhelming
proof of his innocence. The petit
ton states that the Federal court
must free him unless it Is willing
to take the position that he should
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10

1898 must receive the maximum sup
port Of every worker.
If until now the work inside OF
the A. F. Of L. and Railroad Broth
erhoods relatively speaking is still
weak, it is precisely because of the
abstention of work inside the A. r
of L. which represents the MAR
obstacle in developing mass &C
tivfties. Comrade o. Piatnitsky saic
recently that,
When LenIn in 1920, during the
period in which the proIetariat
took direct revolutionary action,
devoted a special chapter in his
historical work Infantile Sickness
Of 'Leftism' in Communism to the
question of the necessity to work
in reactiOnary unions, he had be-
fore him but a few instances Of
refusal on the part Of left Com
muniSts to carry on such work.
However, even then he foresaw
the danger that might arise from
Communists refusing to work in
mass organizations which had
been seized by the enemy. Today
we see the consequences Of this
1eftism' practiced by some Com
munist Parties of the capitalist
countries. I think, however, that
even the functionaries Of the revo-
lutionary trade unioR movement
not only then, but even now, IN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
Ryan, Reactionary Head
of n. Y. School Board,
Reelected 18th Time

NEW YORK. - DR.. George J.
Ryan, reelected president of the
Board of Education, a post he has
held since 1922. for the 18th time
Tuesday, admitted Immediately sf-
ter his reelection that, because Of
the curtailing Of school funds, the
entire public school system faces "a
new crisis more serious than any
previous one"
In demagogic but contradictory
statement in which he declared that
the crisis was over, that the NRA.
has at the same time been an aid
to students and a strain on the
school system. DR.. Ryan-who has
been responsible for the dismissals
of scores Of militant teachers dur
ing his period Of power-wound ur
by urging greater financial sppro-
priations for education.
This will be used, as events during
the past Is years have proved, for
further contracting graft and inside
political graft in the school system
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
Strikers, Steel Workers
Join Communist
Party

and will form mass picket lines.
The newly formed Communist
Party Unit in Middletown is func-
tioning and taking up not only the
problem of winning the strike, but
also to organize the workers of the
American Rolling Mill. The Com
munist PARTY is growing. and all
possibilities that section will be
established in this steel town
owned by the American Rolling Min
Company. It is the members Of the
Communist Party who are leading
this strike, fighting in the fore
front alongside with the rest of the
workers, and Notwithstanding all ef-
forts of the officials, the "red scare
failed completely At one demon
stration, when about 5000 workers
we're present. a question was asked
how many Communists are in this
demonstration?" Almost all hands
we're raised.
In Hamilton at present are sew
eral officials from Columbus. Ac-
cording to Browning, Butler County
Welfare Director, at q meeting Will
these officials, he recommended d
cents an hour, but the state officials
SO it seems, have not accepted hi
| recommendation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
Portland, Maine, Joint
Committee Sponsors
H. r. 1898
BY a Worker Correspondent

PORTLAND, Msine-A join t
committee Of Socialists. Communists
and n-affinated workers spon-
sors the campaign for the enactment
of the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill III. r. 1899. The COM
mittee meets each Friday, and dele
gates are elected TO visit the A. F.
Of L. unions and fraternal organiza-
tons to obtain signatures to the
Bill.
Although the rank aud file work
ers are eager for the Workers Bill,
and readily support it, all sorts Of
tricks are used by the A. F. Of L.
officials, and letters signed by Nor
rison have been sent to all A. F. Of
L. unions instructing them not to
endorse the Workers Bill.
After attacking the Relief Work
ers' Protective Union, announcing
that the A F. of L. had not en-
dorsed the Workers Bill (although
1000 A. F. of L. unions have en-
dorsed the Bid, the Central Labor
Union announced a series of meet
ings at which the industrial codes
would be explained" At one of
these meetings we brought the fight
into the open. Leaflets explaining
the Workers Bill we're distributed to
the workers as they entered the
hall, and delegation was instructed
to bring the Workers Bill up on
the floor Of the meeting. When
A. E. Hopkins, A. F. L. organizer,
attacked the Relief Workers Asso-
citation, our spokesman demanded
and got the floor with the support
Of the rank and file.
When our spokesman demanded
the floor to explain the Workers
Bill. Hopkins refused. Put to a
vote, the rank and file workers
granted our spokesman the floor.
Hopkins was routed. and fled out
the door. Many workers signed the
petition, which will be sent to the
congressman from Maine, demand
ing that they support the Workers
Bill, and several more A. F. Of L.
members joined the Relief Workers
Protective Association.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
Fighting President
of Pa. UMWALOcaI
Is Fired from Job
Balya Had Led Fight on
Lewis No-Strike
Agreement

CENTRAL CITY. Pa.-The dis
rnissal of Mike Balya. president of
the local Of the United Mine Work
ers of America here, has been up
held by the commissioners of the
Eastern luminous Board of Arbi-
tration. Balya was dismissed from
his job because he was the leader
Of the local miners in demanding
that the scales at the local mines be
tested and Because Of his leadership
in the strike on the job, in which
the miners limited their production
to one car per day per man.
The Board Of Arbitration has
ruled that the miners are subjsct to
81 d day fine for the duration of
the limited production, basing this
ruling on the vicious no-strike agree
ment signed by the Lewis machine
and the companies. The owners of
the Reitz mines have offered to
overlook" the fines if the miners
will return to full production and
not fight the discharge of Balya.
Balya, however, has the full sup
port of the timers. He ras led a
militant fight against the Lewis
machine and it has been through
his influence that Tom Myerscough,
president of the National Miners
Union, spoke before the local several
times.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
Cotton NRA Heads
To Order LayOff
In Textile Mills
Action Follows Lay-0f
in Silk Mills
Last Week

NEW YORK. -The N. r. A. Cot
ton Textile Code Authority is pre-
pairing for a general Is per cent re-
duction in production to extend over
a period Of from go to 80 days, 1t
was announced by them yesterday
This will result in a lay-off of thou
sands and further speed-up of
those remaining at work.
This move, like the similar move
in the silk industry last week, to
close all mills for one week, is a
frantic effort to curb production
until the vast surplus of stock on
hand is partially consumed, The
decline in the cotton textile trade
is much greater than the usual sea-
sona1 drop. and the export trade in
textiles has registered a tremendous
decrease, the code authority said
Over 600 silk mills are closing
down for d week under the orders
Of the big producers through the N.
r. A. silk textile code authority
This will throw 10000 workers out
of their jobs. With the present
conditions prevailing, it is likely
that many Of these will be per-
manently unemployed.
The old "spread-the work" game
lie being revived. with Francis j.
German, vice-president of the
United Textile Workers, together
with certain employers advocating
two shifts of 80 hours each week.
This will result in further reduc-
ton in the starvation minimum
pay of $13 week if the workers
allow it to be carried out. 1t will
affect the workers in the Southern
mills even more because of the diff
ferential provision in the N. r. A,
code, which allows employers to pay
only s12 a week minimum for work
which, according to the estimate of
the United Textile Workers Off
Gals, averages 80 hours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10

impossible for anyone to
enter. They had learned that
Clinic Bardo, company presi-
dent, had made arrangements
to import a gang of strike
breakers, but after their spirited
display no one attempted to enter.
The navy, whose war preparations
are being held up by the strike, took
a tentative step to break it, when
it ordered Bardo to resume work
on the Tuscaloosa, one of the
battleships his company is build
ing, by May IA, and threatened to
haul the ship to the Philadelphia
navy yard for completion, unless the
order is complied with. There is a
rlHnor. according to the Philadel-
phia press, that the strikers will,
in that case. ask the organized navy
yard workers to keep hands off"
the Tuscaloosa.
BardO In Split Attempts
Bardo. whose offer OF a 13 per
cent pay increase in place Of the
IS per cent demanded by the strik-
ers was turned down last week
announces that 100 strikers are
ready to return to work. This viei-
Gus attempt to provoke a split
among the strikers, It turns out. is
based on a vote taken eight months
ago. Then he had proposed to out
the working week to thirty-two
hours with no wage increases. and
held a poll ON the matter Eleven
hundred men voted for the forty
four hour week on the same wage
scale, while the rest wanted a pay
increase While making this an
nouncement, Bardo was comforting
with General Johnson, and other
shipbuilders in Washington, hatch
ing q scheme to break the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
Mass Delegation to Demand
Cash Relief and H.R. 1898 at
Penna. Relief Board Meeting.
P tits burgh Councils
Launch Campaign To
Unity Unemployed

PITTSBURGH. Pa. May 2. -
Under the initiative Of the Unem-
ployment Councils Of Allegheny
County, a mass delegation TO nun-
Der from $50 tn 200 workers. de-
handing increased relief payments
to be made in cash. an end to all
euctons, Jobs for all unemployed
at trade union wages, and endorse
ment of the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill CHR.759s) viii at
tend the next meeting Of the state
Relief Board in Harrisburg, on May
goth.
All locals of the Pennsylvania
Unemployed Leagues. the Independ-
ent Unemployed Citizens Leagues,
the Unemployment Councils, and all
unemployed groups are being asked
to send representative delegations.
Begin Petition Campaign
A petition campaign is being insti-
tuted to secure at least $4,000 sigma
lures on the basis Of the demands
TO present to the Relief Board.
Workers throughout the state are
being urged to send resolutions end
individual demands to Governor
Pinchot and Relief Director Biddle,
demanding that the delegation Of
workers be granted an audience, and
that demands be granted at once.
The petition will demand: % in
creased relief, surplus food orders
to be continued or compensated in
cash; ~ all relief 10 be paid in
cash: 80 evictions and sheriff sales
to be stopped by immediate action
of the Relief Board pending repeal
Of the eviction law; a. endorsement
of the Workers Unemployment IN
surance Bill by the Relief Board
80 increased medical relief; 90
organized unemployed workers to be
represented on the state Relief
Board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
Bridgeport MoIders
Strike for More Pay

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, May 9.
ALI Is molders of the Bridge
port Casting Co. here went on
strike Monday under the lead
ership Of the Steel and Metal
workers Industrial Union. There
are 40 workers employed in the
foundry at present and it is ex-
pected that all of them will Join
the strike. The molders voted
to strike at a meeting held on
Saturday morning.
The molders are striking for
Cd An increase in prices to en-
able the men to earn a minimum
of 75e an hour; ~ Equal divi-
sion of work and (3) Recogni-
ton Of the union. The strike of
the Mslleable iron workers last
Summer led by the s. M. W. I.
u, resulted in many gains for
the foundry workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
Providence, r. l., Mass
Meet TO Demand Social
Insurance Bill HR 1898

PROVIDENCE, r. IA mass
meeting under the auspices Of the
Right to Live Club, to rally all
workers behind the Workers IN
employment Insurance Bill II. r,
1899 will be held at the City Hall
Plaza, Saturday, May II, 7:30 pm.
On May 10, there will be a "spe-
cial' election. The Right to Live
Club is urging all workers, en-
ployed and unemployed to paste
stickers on every ballot. or if work
ers do not have the stickers which
are being issued by the club, to
write the words: Il enclose H. R.
1898" on the ballot.
A mass campaign is being con-
Quoted to force the state legislature
at the special May session to en-
dorse the Workers Bill.