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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-07
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS

One fundamental element OF
Improvement considered in the
new outlook is the promise OF
better economic conditions, signs
of which have been noted inter-
mittently in various countries and
were more prevalent in the Unit
ed States in recent weeks than Tor
nearly a year.
The departure Of the United
States grand fleet from the Pa
cific is the latest in series of six
or more developments helping to
tranquilize that area. The grand
fleet, composed Of the Battle
Fleet, ordinarily stationed in the
Pacific, and the Scouting Fleet,
ordinarily stationed in the Allan
tic, has been joined in the Cali
fornia-Hawaii vicinity since early
in 1882, when joint maneuvers
were held there.
Originally scheduled to sepa-
rate, the fleet has heen kept to-
gether in this area all during the
delicate Far Eastern situation
since the Manchuria and Shang-
hal affairs.
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u. S. COMBINED FLEET
SAILING EAST SUNDAY

Continued from page one.)
cal elements are mere complicat-
ed, officials and diplomats here
have an increasing confidence that
statesmen of the influential CAPT
tails will maintain a delicate bal
ance until conditions improve
basicallY.
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THE DEVELOPMENTS

i
Other developments with SINH
lar effeffcts recently have been:
l. General quieting of the war
talk in Moscow and Toxic, &C
companied by signs that the
statesmen of both nations wish to
avoid conflict now.
2. The exchange of special
good will messages between Jap
anese Foreign Minister Hirota
and United States Secretary of
State Hull, in which each eX-
pressed belief that "there are no
questions between our two coun-
tries, which if they be viewed in
proper perspective in both coun-
tries, can with any warrant be
regarded as not readily susceptl-
BILE to adjustment by pacific pro-
cess;
8. Passage of the month OF
March, in which military experts
believed it most likely an aggres-
sive nation would start military
action;
4 Japan's apparent preoccupa-
ton with consolidating the eco
nomic and political potentlalltles
of Manchukuo and Strengthening
its ties with China proper, pos
siblv with the idea of deriving
further strength from both;
< President Roosevelt's decla-
ration that the passage of a navy
construction bill by congress did
not mean the ships would be
built, as the money had yet to be
appropriated, and his added com,
ment of hope that further naval
limitations would occur during
the 1885 conference;
6. Tokio's efforts to control
and restrict publication of war IN
fiammatory articles in the press
and the general subsistence of war
preparedness propaganda in the
limited States following passage
Of the fleet construction bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
% Face Court
.OnRiOtCharge
In Phoenix

PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 4.-The
trial of Clay Naff, unemployed
leader and Communist candidate
for Governor in the last elections,
was resumed here last week, with
the possibility of long drawn out
trial as the defense prepared to call
long panel of witnesses.
Naff and twenty-seven others
were arrested on Sept. 6, when po-
lice, acting under the direct orders
of the former Klansman, Governor
E. E. Moeur, charged the picket line
of striking F. E. r. A. workers. The
reign of terror which followed was
somewhat abated as workers de-
Tense groups and wave of protests
flooded the Governor.
Each of the twenty-eight workers,
who are charged with riot" will
demand a jury trial. Thomas J.
Croaff, former president of the
State Federation of Labor and
prominent labor attorney, and
Grover johnson of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense will defend
the workers.
Protests against the frame-up of
these twenty EIGHT and demands
that all be Immediately released
should be rushed to Governor
Moeur, Attorney-General LaPrade
and Judge Speakman, Phoenix,
Arizona.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
3 Unions Back
Store Strike
In Milwaukee
Truck Drivers, Building
Service Workers Out
With Retail Clerks

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Dec. A.
Truck drivers and building service
employees of the Boston department
store have struck in sympathy with
the striking retail clerks. Hundreds
of strikers maintain mass picket
lines, and drasticaIly cut down the
business of the store over the week
end.
Labor Conciliator Harry Scheck
and Labor Relations Board Repre-
sentative DR.. Stewart Grimshaw are
trying to inveigle the strikers back
to work through arbitration.
The three unions involved, the
Retail Clerks Protective Association,
Local BAT of the Transfers and
Chauffeurs; and Local $50 of the
Building Service Employees, while
putting up their own demands, have
made joint agreement that none
shall return to work until all three
have made settlement.
The Boston store, attempting to
counterfeit loss in business, is print
ing newspaper ads Of sales, declar-
ing, I'VE are making it worth your
while to shop in the Boston Store"
The company has instructed scabs,
who are given high nav NOT tn dis
cusS the strike with customers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
Germantown Fascists
In California Prepare
To Leave for the Saar

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. A.
German-born fascists now living in
California are preparing to leave for
the Saar, or have already left, in
order to vote for Hitler and against
the anti-Hitler United Front of
Catholics, Socialists and Commu-
nists, according to admission in the
Nov. Is issue of the California
Staats-zeitung, Los Angeles German
language newspaper.
In a front-page boxed editorial
appeal, the paper urges readers to
contribute funds with which to
clothe, feed and shelter the wives
and children of the German Amer
lean fascists during their absence
in the Saar. According to the
Staats-zeitung, supposedly NOR e
than 100 fascists from California
will participate in the vote.
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Federal Government
Plans To Purchase All
Prison-Made Clothing

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. A
special committee of the Recovery
Board will seek to smooth the way
to greater profits for cotton goods
producers by an effort to remove
prison-made clothing from the open
market. The committee will try to
work out scheme whereby govern
ment agencies will buy up prison.
made garments for relief distribu-
ton.
State prison factories are esti-
mated to produce 100000 worth
of cotton goods yearly.
The arrangement, if consum-
mated, will make the Federal gov
eminent a direct, large-scale pur-
chaser of the products of forced
labor. It will not help in any way
to prevent prison production from
forcing down the wage standards Of
workers in industry.
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volved, of course, is that the en-
ployers and Roosevelt now want the
open and legal sanction and an open
government drive for smashing the
real trade union movement and for
having only fascist, company unions.
These company unions, now flour
ishing in steel, coal, auto, rubber,
ETC., as result of the Labor Boards
activities, in all cases vest only with
the employer the right to hire and
fire, and provide for settling griev-
ances solely through the manage
ment.
They vest only in the employer all
decisions as to wages, working con-
ditions, etc. Militant workers, of
course, should work inside of these
company unions, to rally the work.
ers in them for the placing of de-
mands on the employers and for
leading these workers towards real
trade unions. Work inside of these
unions, to direct the workers in them
toward a fight for the workers de-
mands, inevitably exposes these en-
ployer- controlled unions as the stool
pigeon agencies of the bosses to keep
the living standards down and crush
the real trade unions.
The employers claim of their
right" to deal only with their own
company unions is not only based
o. Richberg's speeches. 1t is based
on the ambiguous language of Sec
ton A itself and the original pur-
pose of Section IA. 1t is vested in
all of the activities of Roosevelt's
Labor Boards. 1t is also based on
Roosevelt's decision in the auto in
dustry. Here not only was the
merit clause" written by Roosevelt
and the A. F. of l.. leaders into the
auto code, thus giving the employers
a free hand to hire and fire and
carry on anti-union activity. 1t was
also contained in the decision of
Roosevelt, which was hailed by
Green, that prevented the auto
strike last year and which laid down
the principle" of representation for
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a. Courts and ~ Elections Strengthen the Company Unions
and Preuent Recognition of the Real Trade Unions

company unions in an impregnable
position. The N.R.A. maintains Just
enough demogogy in order to keep
wrapped around itself the last
Shreds of illusions of fairness" to
labor. They decide on an election"
but rule at the same time that the
company union is legal and its name
must be printed on the ballot. The
Labor Boards, the Department of
Justice and the federal courts then
protect the employers and their
company unions from any embar-
rassment by endless delay and where
necessary by blocking the carrying
out of the results of the elections in
the courts. In the case of the rubber
industry, the chances are the cleo
tons will not even be held.
Only One Case In Courts
The same course of protecting the
company union was carried out in
the auto, the steel, and other in
dustries. In the steel industry, one
election has been held under the
new Steel Labor Board set up by
Roosevelt with the approval of
William Green, Mike Tighe and
other A. F. of L. leaders, in order to
prevent a strike last June.
In this election, the employees of
the West Virginia Rail Co., of Hunt
ingson, w. Va, voted overwhelm-
ingly against the company union
and selected the A. F. of L. union,
the Amalgamated Association, as
their bargaining agent" But this
election changed nothing. The COM
pany union in this plant is stronger
than ever, and no move toward a
contract has been made by the COM
pany.
So well has the Roosevelt govern
ment protected the rights" Of the
employers and their company unions
that only one case, of all those re-
ferred to the Department of Justice,
has actually come into the courts.
This is the famous Weirton case,
where for interminable months the
government has been "sueing" the
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minority organizations in proper
ton to strength.
In other words, there has never
been any difference of opinion be-
tween the government and the en-
ployers regarding smashing the real
trade unions and boosting the COM
pany unions. The government, as
the representatives of the employers
has throughout the whole period of
MIRA, been behind the company
unions. Section 7 A has been from
the beginning, means Of building
the company unions.
Now, with the sharpening of the
attacks of Roosevelt on the workers
living standards, with the more open
wage-cutting drive, and more open
understanding measures of the
government, some of the demagogy
surrounding Section A is being dis
carded, and the NRA. and the fed
eral government CAS- in Richberg S
speech champions the company
union moer openly.
Demagogy as to the advantages
of the company union will now in
crease on the part of government
officials, and more direct measures
of fascist terror will be used to en-
force the open, union smashing
company-union campaign.
The working class, studying the
whole history of the building OF
company unions under MIRA, can
learn the lesson that not through
government boards, not through no.
strike agreements, not through Sec
ton Z A can the workers win any OF
their demands and defeat the COM
pany unions.
Under Section 7 A company unions
grew to an unprecedented degree.
Only through their own organized
strength, only through their own
unions, operating with ella SIS
struggle policy, only by strike prep
arations and rank and file control
can the workers defeat the company
unions, win union recognition anc
better conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
By Carl Reeve

company in the lower federal court
in Wilmington, Del.
This trial" turned into an open
farce when the judge interrupted
the arguments to praise the company
union and to attack the real trade
union of the Weirton workers-the
Amalgamated Association.
The case is still in the courts and
the Weirton company has only &C
CELEBRATED the blacklist, firing, and
the domination of the company
union, while the suit dargs on.
Further endless delay is provided
for in the intention to appeal to
the United States Supreme Court if
the employers find this move neces-
Sary.
Auto Labor Board Boosts Company
Union
In the Houde Engineering case, af-
ter months of doing nothing, the De-
partment of Justice has finally
brought suit against the Houde En-
gineering company which, like all
employers when it is to their in
terestS has laughed at the decisions
of the National Relations Board.
In the complaint" of the D. of j.
the words cor any group" are added
when the A. F. of L. union is men
toned. Thus the D. of J. leaves a
loop-hole for the company union.
This case, now in the Buffalo courts,
might drag on for years until it
reaches the United States Supreme
Court. If the employers find it to
their interest, they can instruct the
courts, which they control, to end
the farce and rule for the company
union. Meanwhile, the Auto Labor
Board will continue to strengthen
the company unions.
In the Houde case, the election
has been held, the A. F. of L. auto
union has been chosen by the work.
ers, and the company union flour
fishes more strongly than ever, under
the regime of the Auto Labor Board.
The Houde company fatty refuses
to consider the results of the "elec-
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tion," and declares it will deal only
with the company union.
Now, with the reorganization" OF
the MIRA, the Roosevelt govern
ment plans to more openly cham
pion the company union and to Gin
terpret" the Section Z A more clearly
as union smashing, company union
proposition.
This is the meaning of Donald
Richberg's speech in which he de-
clared, mo one has been given au-
thority under the law, and 1 doubt
whether anyone could be given
legal authority, to herd all en-
ployes or any number of employees
into voting unit and then compel
them to select their representatives
by a majority vote"
Richberg, most important spokes-
man for Roosevelt, is praised fol-
these remarks by the Wall Street
Journal, which is, like Richberg
spokesman for the employers. This
employers sheet editorially demands
the right" of the employers to
recognize and deal only with their
own union-the company union.
Rega riding Interpretation" OF
Section A, the Wall Street Journal
states: "The question now is for the
courts, and it is to be hoped that
whatever the lower courts may de-
eide regarding the Houdge case
CIR the case will be carried to the
U. S. Supreme Court in order tina.
both labor and industry may know
their rights and duties. Until that
Is done 1t will be difficult matter
to convince disinterested people that
even one working man in a large
organization must forego his right
to bargain with his employer and
submit to the representation or
agency of another who is not his
choice"
The Wall Street journal, citing
Richberg, here argues for the
rights" of the company union, and
of the Houde Co., to deal only with
this fascist union. The issue in
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ChicagoUnions
Push Mid-We est
Metal Meeting

CHICAGO, Dec. 4.-Reports show
that most union locals here have
elected delegates to the Midwest
ern Conference Of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
which will be held here on Sunday,
Dec. 9.
In addition, calls for the election
of representative delegates have
been sent to the Mechanics Educa-
tional Society, Local % of the In
ternational Association of Machin-
lists, the Independent Die Casters
League of America, and other
unions of the metal workers.
From other cities, notably Peoria,
ILL.,, and Terre Haute, Ind, dele
gates have been elected. John
Schmies, Cleveland district organ
izer of the union, reported that a
large delegation will be elected from
that city. To date, no reports have
been received from Rockford,
Minneapolis, Milwaukee, st. Louis
and Detroit.
The delegates arriving in Chicago
for the conference will be greeted
with an entertainment and dance
at the Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch
Boulevard, Saturday evening.
No meeting, discussion or affair
should end before an appeal for
contributions is made for the bal
ance of more than S11,0O0 toward
the Daily Worker drive quota.
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Daily Worker
Drive Spurred
In B u IF alo
Communist Organizer
Pledges $3.50 Within
Next Few Days


Stating that Buffalo should Tong
ago have reached its quota" in the
100000 drive, Henry Shepard, Buff
falo District Organizer, yesterday
called upon the Communist Party
sections and mass organizations in
the district to raise "st least $25C
within the next few days"
Buffalo has acquired only $685. Of
its $3.50 quota-71 per cent.
I'VE have repeatedly called upon
you to put all forces into the drive,
Shepard stated.
But the Rochester section APP
parently is the only section which
has taken this appeal seriously.
1t is clear that we have not ap-
preached the question of raising oul
quota with the seriousness that the
situation demands. If all sections
and units of the Party had carried
out the instructions properly, Buff
falo would long ago have reached
its quota and would now be sub
stantially over the top.
The great tagging behind of
the units in District -Four must
be overcome! Within the next few
days we must arrange affairs,
house parties, utilize the COLLECTION
lists and punch boards, and must
make efforts to secure individual
donations from all our sympa-
thizers and friends.
1.-THE Section Buros and the
bur0s of unattached units must
demand that the fractions in mass
organizations take up seriously the
question of raising a substantial
sum to be sent in to the Daily
Worker.
According to the report in the
Daily Worker of Nov. 80, we have
only sent in $49683, which means
that within the next few days al
Least $3.50 must be raised in oul
district to fulfill our quota in the
$4,000 drive.
Il am sure we do not want 1t
said that through our neglect, the
existence of the Daily Worker has
been endangered. Therefore, the
District Committee expects every
comrade to become Daily Worker
conscious, to see that funds are
secured from every possible source
and Immediately forwarded to the
Daily Worker.
Every Section Buro, the buro
of every unit and every individual
Party member must Immediately
get into action to raise the bal
ance of our quota"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
Strikers Continue
To Mass Picket
Kaynee Co. Plant

CLEVELAND, O., Dec. An the
fifth week Of the strike of the en-
ployeS of the Kaynee Clothing Co.,
mass picketing is being conducted
at the Bucyrus, O., plant of the same
company.
The Cleveland Federation of La
Dor sent fifty volunteer pickets.
About one hundred workers from
Cleveland joined the Bucyrus line.
The company is sending around
foremen trying to sign up strikers to
agree to return to work before
Christmas.
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THE demagogy with which Roose-
welt has surrounded Section IA
of the MIRA. has worn so thin that
the employers and Roosevelt are
preparing to throw this demogogy
overheard and reinterpret this So
called labor" provision of the
N.R.A., as their open champion of
company unions.
This history of the carrying out
of Section IA has been a history of
carrying out the will of the employ
ers in all industries. The latest taste
which the workers are given Of how
the MIRA. robs them of their rights
and strengthens the company unions
is now seen in the rubber industry.
The Rubber Election"
A "federally supervised" election
is scheduled to be held in this in
dustry on Saturday, when Firestone
and Goodrich employees are scheduled
w NO0C Ol1 WllCbhlCl tllCy P1C4Cl Vic
A. F. of L. union or the company
union. Already, it has been made
clear that this election" will have
no effect in bringing the rubber
workers nearer to recognition or to
the winning of any of their de-
mands.
The Wall Street Journal of Dec. 3
put the matter neatly when it
stated SHOULD either or both COM
panies refuse to present their pay
rolls as of next Wednesday as or
dered by the Regional Labor Board,
1t would signify they had decided
to defend their stand on employe
relationships in the courts. In well
informed circles, there is a belief
that the companies will not agree
to cooperate in holding the cleo
tions."
Thus the branches of the federal
government continue their division
Of labor aimed to prevent union
recognition, to defeat the demands
of the workers, and to establish the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05

HUNTINGTON, w. Va, Dec. A.
Nose Maynard and his wife Betty,
with their daughter and her four
children are living a bare animal
existence in a cave in the noun
tains near here.
On a bleak, windswept hillside,
three miles from Glenhayes, Wayne
County, W. Va, this family of seven
are living as prehistoric cave
jewellers, as is shown in the two
pictures above.
The primitive cave home is shell
tered in front by old boards and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
AFFAIRS FOR THE
DAILY WORKER
RufuLO. ". Y,

Buffalo, ". Y.
Daily Worker Dance, Friday, Dec. '
at 100 Main St. Adm. use.
Detroit, Mich.
Daily Worker Victory Celebration.
Dec 8 at 8 pm. Finnish Hall, $3.50
l4th St., near McGraw. Good Pro-
gram, Dancing, Refreshments. Adm.
in adv. l5c. at door zoe.
Chicago, I'LL.
House Party, Friday Dec. 7 at 6o52
Gliding Ave. at home Of Henry
Glaz. Adm. free. Ausp.: Sec. 8.
House Party given by Unit 4ls,
c. P, at 14io winnemac Ave, Satur-
day, Dec. 8. SPIN.
Newark, N. j.
Concert and Dramatic Evening AZ
SIS Clinton Ave, l. w. O. Center.
Sunday, Dec. 0, s pm. Del" carr
toonist Of Daily Worker. W. L. T. OF
New York. Ausp. Jewish Bureau,
Communist Party.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Big Affair, Musical Program, Good
Food, Ed. Hamilton, Speaker. Sat-.
Dec. s. Workers School, Elm and
Opera Place, $50 pm.
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Industrial Movie Union
G aims Wage Increase
From TechnicOlor Co.

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Dec. 4-The
Motion Picture Workers Industrial
Union here has won a ten per cent
increase in wages for tool and die
makers employed by the Techni-
color Company. This is the second
victory won by this left-wing union.
A short time ago they won sim
liar victory from the Mitchell Cam
era Company.
The Screen Actors Guild, mean
while, has affiliated itself with the
Actors Equity Association in an eff
fort to strengthen its fight to COM
pei motion picture producers to
meet with them for the creation of
a code in the industry.
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shell-shocked World War veteran.
Until year ago he received a gov
eminent pension, when it was
stopped. He now has tuberculosis.
He is unable to help his parents.
Living in a State which is the
richest in natural and mineral
wealth in the United States-Mose
Maynard and his family live in
direst poverty. One COW and three
acres of corn, supplemented by a
relief check from the F. E. R. A.,
keep them from starving. Until
recently they possessed two COWS,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
Police Swing Cavel
In Union Meeting
In the Southland

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Dec. A.
Meetings Of the Brown-William-
son local Of the International
Tobacco Workers Union are
regularly supervised by uni
formed police since the rank and
file insisted on presenting de-
mands for a twenty per cent
wage increase. The rank and
file members Of this local, which
claims a membership of $500,
demanded that the chair recog-
nize a motion for the wage in
crease. The chief Of the COM
pany police is chairman Of the
meetings. He always rules the
motion for a wage increase out
Of order.
At the Axton-Fisher plant,
the I. T. w. U. Local 161 has a
membership claimed to be $500.