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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Cleveland JObIesS
To Demonstrate on
Friday, April 18th
Demand End to Recent
Relief Cuts, Increased
Relief and Jobs

CLEVELAND, Ohio, April g.
Demanding that the recent relief
cut Of one-third be Immediately
rescinded. workers here are holding
mass meetings in preparation for a
ctty-wide demonstration to be held
at the Public Square, Friday, April
-, at pm.
On April 9Th, a delegation Of 100
representing the ward assemblies OF
the Cleveland Unemployment Coun-
oils, together with representatives
from other working class organiza-
lions, protested to Mayor Davis the
announced relief cuts.
After a committee Of five had
presented the workers demands,
Mayor Davis answered that the de-
mands could be taken up only at
committee meetings, completely
evading his responsibility to the
unemployed.
The workers of Cleveland demand
that the relief cut be Immediately
stopped, and that the $4,000 900
which the city now has on deposit
in the banks be Immediately turned
over to the unemployed workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10

cut. But no serious Roadway can
be made unless we have a strong
opposition inside the A. F. of l..
local. Among the youth we organ
lied an apprentices association
which won some youth demands,
but We did not recruit from this
into the Y. c. L.
Other Indu! ries
Comrade Murphy. Seattle lumber
worker, gave a number Of examples
Of the hiding Of the face Of the
Party in the work among the lum-
Der workers of the Northwest. Syn
dicalist tendencies were not suffi-
GENTLY combatted, and the role and
program Of the Party was not
brought sufficiently to the lumber
workers, and in some cases recruit
ing was neglected.
The delegate from the granite
cutters of Vermont told of the sue
cessful campaign of the A. F. of L.
Granite, Paving and Quarry Work
ers' locals for endorsement of the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill (H. R. 1899. Two
branches Of the paving cutters have
already passed a motion, he said,
calling for donation by the Inter
national of $50 to the Daily Worker
for its new press. Although the
International mdsleaders have re-
fused to put this motion to a refer
endum, the locals will continue the
campaign to force the international
to carry through q referendum for
q donation to the Daily Worker. he
declared.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Plan Forced Labor
Scheme At Jersey
Secret Relief Meet

NEW BRUNSWICK, n. j..
April 9.-CarTying out the orders
Of President Roosevelt, the vel
fare officials Of New Jersey. in
a secret session held here last
night, voted 10 put the entire
unemployed population Of New
Jersey on a forced labor plan Of
work relief"
Under the New Jersey plan,
details of which have not yet
been made public, the welfare
officials plan to institute their
vicious forced labor scheme.
Forced labor work relief" I'M
der the new plan. will be re-
quired of all relief clients in ex-
change for a handful of grocer
les. The only exemption, it Is
planned, will be supervisors, who
will continue on a cash wage
basis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Racketeer Officials
Supply Bosses With
AFL '"Union" Signs

NEW YORK.-The racketeerinq
officials, who were unsuccessful in
breaking the strike of the IL men
Of Karp Bros. Fruit Market at 1921
65th ST., which is continuing in spite
of the So arrests, are now trying
the same tactics at 298 Albany Ave.
in Brooklyn, where four fruit work
ers are on strike already the third
week.
They supplied the boss with a
union" sign and scabs and are now
arresting pickets on charges of vio-
lating an injunction they claim they
have against the Food Workers In
duStrial Union.
Saturday they arrested three pick
cts and Monday six. But the strike
continues strong.
Strikes are also in progress against
the Zion Grocery, 66 Belmont Ave
and 1765 Prospect Pl, in BROOKLYN
and the Strauss Dairy, 9th Ave. and
115th St., Manhattan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Mt. Clair Millinery
Strike Betrayed By
Leaders of Union

NEW YORK.-How the Mt. Clair
millinery strike was betrayed by
leaders, of the Hat, Cap and Millin-
cry Union, Local "a, was revealed
yesterday by group of workers
who were on strike at the shop at
113 University Place.
The workers we're striking four
weeks for the reinstatement of
workers fired for union activities
Immediately after the beginning of
the strike union leaders began to
release strikers and put them on
other jobs. This weakened the
strike. When the workers asked
for increased strike benefits the
leaders, who had plenty of relief
funds, refused to give it TO them.
They then decided to settle" the
strike without the reinstatement of
the shop chairman, Rubin Schulz
man.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
The Rank and File Approach
Their First A. A. Convention
Mast Fight for Seating of Delegates from Lodges Which
Representation by International Officers

90 for a united front policy with
the unemployed workers and their
organizations, etc, and CD for the
passage Of the Workers Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance Bill Oh.
r. 1899.
There is no doubt that the April
18th convention will be the storm
lest A. A. convention in years. The
Journal Agent Of Lodge 79, Can
nonsburgh, the second largest of
the ld-eStabhshed lodges Of the
A. A., states in the March 29th
issue Of the A. A. journal, IT won
der how long the International Of
ficers viii be able to hold the men
back"
Must Draw Sharper Lines
Several things are clear: ID that
the convention will not be able to
decisively change the present situa-
ton in the A. A. (although it Will
be able to draw far sharper and
clearer the lines between the reac-
tionaries and the masses of rank
and file); o. that the reasons for
this are essentially the failure OF
the claSs-conscious workers in the
A. A. to get started soon enough
organizing mass rank and file
movement; 90 that the struggle
will be continued AFTER the con-
vention, with the elections of inter-
national officers (Which come dur
ing the summer months as next
objective); ~ that the A. A. work
ers, stimulated by the record and
activities Of the 8. NJ. w. I q, and
by the united front proposals Of the
s. M. W. L g., driven by the brutal
attacks upon Hletr living and work
ing conditions, eager for struggle
viii break the official chains which
bind them to the steel trust, viii
act independently over the heads OF
their officials, will launch the great
est wave Of struggles since 1919.
The Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union, while greatly in
creasing it's own independent activi-
ties, must redouble its efforts fol
united front with the A. A. workers
INSIDE THE MILLS, ON EVERY
G RE NOE FACING THE
WORKERS, must redouble its ef-
forts to convince the A. A. men,
bers of the correctness of its policy
for the purpose of getting the rank
and file to fight for a CLASS
STRUGGLE POLICY INSIDE THE
A. A., must in the most serious
manner prepare. first its own APP
paratus and, through this, the
masses of steel workers organized
and unorganized, for the swiftly
approaching mass strikes.
1t Is the duty of all delegates
to the convention to fight on the
floor for the seating of those dele
gates from lodges denied repre-
sentati0n Tor adequate represen-
tation) by the International Off
GERS, such as Clarion where be-
cause of mass blachisting follow
ing the strike the members are
not paid up in dues, LaBeIle mill
in SteubenvilIe, etc.
Any lodges meeting between
now and the convention should
adopt and forward to the Inter
national officers resolutions de-
handing that ALL lodges Of the
A. A. be given voice and vote at
the convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Shipyard Workers
Win All Demands
In z Weeks Strike
Strikers Now Building
New Section of Steel
and Metal Union

NEW YORK.-The 10 workers in
the Wheeler Shipyard Inc, Coney
Island, after being out on strike
over two weeks. have returned to
work on winning their demands.
They are now organizing a Boat
builders and Shipyard Workers
Local of the Steel and Metal Work
ers Industrial Union since they
realize that it is the only way they
will be able to hold onto what they
have won through a fight.
The trouble began when the
Wheeler bosses turned down the de-
mands of the yard committee de-
handing the reinstatement of six
men and slight wage increase.
The bosses then tried to intimidate
the men by locking them out Of the
yard The Steel and Metal Work
ers Industrial Union on hearing of
this action stepped in, giving lead
ership to the workers and turned
the lockout into strike.
The picketing and the relief was
organized and the men went into
action with a bang. The Scandi-
navian Workers Educational Society,
at 5111 5th Ave, Brooklyn, and the
different workers organizations in
Coney Island rallied to the support
of the strikers, assisting them in re-
lief and otherwise.
Bosses Come Across
The bosses were finally compelled
to come across. since the strikers
we're effective in stopping the pro-
duction of boats, so badly needed
by the bosses, this being the busy
season. The men returned to work
on securing Their demands:
Five cents an hour increase:
2-Time and one-half for overtime;
3-Right of the workers to belong
to any organization they choose;
ALI the men to return to work
No discrimination against any
worker for strike activity; 5-Recog-
milton Of the yard committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
WESL Plans Series
OF Demonstrations
For JObIeSS Relief
Will Hold Mass Meets
to Demand HR 1898,
Cash for Vets

NEW YORK-The Workers Ex-
Servicemens League have arranged
a series of mass meetings and dem
onstrations prior to their sending a
delegation to Washington to de-
mand cash relief for veterans and
enactment of the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill.
The w. E. S. L. invite all veterans
to Join in their demonstrations.
They are as follows:
Friday, April 13-Union Square, 7
p. m. march from Tenth st. and
Second Ave. at s p. m. Mass meet
ing later at SO E. Third st. to send
a delegation to Albany to demand
cash relief for veterans and H. R.
1898.
Saturday, April 14-March from
Union Square, p. m, to Columbus
Circle. Return to Union Square for
mass meeting
Wednesday, April 18-Demonstra-
ton at Union Square, 10 a. M,
march to Needle Trades Union
headquarters on 28th St., at noon.
Saturday, April -21-Meeting, 6 p.
M, st. Anne and Cyprus Ave,
Bronx.
Wednesday, April 25-Demonstra-
ton at Wall Street, noon.
Saturday. April 28-Demonstra-
ton in Harlem, 10th st, and Fifth
Ave. 7 D. m.
April 30-Mass rally at Union
Square, s p. m, and march to Irving
Plaza for indoor meeting
The delegation will leave for
Washington after NAV [
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Scranton Police Club,
Jail Protesting Workers

SCRANTON, Pa, April 9.-Police
and detectives brutally attacked a
workers delegation of so, who went
to the City Hall here Friday to
protest against the brutality of the
police in recent demonstration
and march of the unemployed.
AS the workers delegates entered
the City Hall, the police swung into
action, clubbing the workers. The
delegates had previously made an
appointment 10 meet with the
mayor.
Helen Dorio Of Throop, active in
the Unemployment Councils, was
among the workers arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Miners Talking About
a State Wide Tie-up.
with All Mines Out
BIRMINGHAM Ala

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Ar
agreement making the Of
ficials Of the United Mins
Workers in Alabama the open
and official strike-breakinp
agency for the coal operators. has
just been signed between the U. II.
w. Of A. and the DeBardeleben
Coal Co. The agreement was drawn
up under the supervision Of Charles
Barnes, a federal investigator sent
to Alabama by the N. r. A.
The agreement followed a strike
called by the local unions, and sew
eral marches Of white and Negro
miners on the pits.
Under the new contract, the
heads Of the United Mine Workers
in Alabama have agreed:
l. Not to hold meetings on any
property Of the DeBardeleben Coal
Corporation. This ruling keeps the
unions off the company patches and
out Of the mines themselves. In
time Of strike, the ruling can be
used to try to keep the miners from
picketing and from drawing work.
ing miners into the struggle.
g. Not to allow circulars or otheg
literature TO be distributed BIZ the
union unless these have the sigma
tJlre Of the district president or his
aids. This ruling aims 20 present
independent action by the local
unions and the rank and file. The
operators know they can trust
Mitch, president of the Alabama
district Of the o. M. W, who Just
got the miners tied up IN no.
strike contract for year.
3. The third point in the agree
ment provides that The union
shall make every effort to prevent
marches against the mines Of the
DeBardeleben Coal Corporation by
workers from other mines, or the
gathering Of armed groups" Thus
the union officials pledge their cid
as strikebreakers.
All over the Alabama coal fields,
miners are talking Of a real, state
wide tie-up, with all mines out, in
Guiding the captive mines Of the
powerful Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad Co. and the Republic Steel
Corporation. Should workers from
other mines try to enlist the sup
port Of the DeBardeleben workers,
the officials of the .. M. W. Of A.
will do their best to prevent It.
.. THE union shall make every
effort to prevent intimidation of the
workers" the agreement says. I'M
der the heading of intimidation,
there is no doubt included all eff
forts to recruit workers for the
union, and any attempts to prevent
scabs from operating during a
strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Machine Guns Installed
in Danville Cotton Mills
By a Worker Correspondent

DANVILLE, Va. - Submachine
guns that fire 800 bullets minute
have been installed by the Riverside
and River Mills inside the companys
plants as the bosses are preparing
to meet with violence any attempt
of the workers to organize and
struggle for better conditions In
addition, the mill bosses have
started campaign to split the
workers ranks by telling the white
workers, who receive miserable
wages together with the Negro
workers, that the Negro workers are
going to scab against them.
Solidarity between Negro and
white workers is growing, however,
in spite Of the bosses.
The unemployment offices In Dan
vile are swamped with applicants
for jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Auto Labor GARD
Tries SellOut
Tactics

MILWAUKEE, April ct h e
picket lines at Seaman Body Cor
poration-one Of the three plants
involved in the Nash strike-haYe
remained solid in spite of attempts
to weaken them by scare headlines
in the newspapers that the strike is
settled. Arrests and clashes with
the police take place daily and po-
lice buttons, coats and hats have
been torn from them by the pickets.
Hardly a scab ever gets by. Chief
Of Police LAUDER heimer has also
appeared on the scene in person to
aid the 400 policemen at the three
gates get the scab cars through.
The women are especially mill
tant and Laubenheimer was pushed
back when he tried to break
through a ring Of pickets. He
argued with the women, but with
out success.
The National Automobile Labor
Board, headed by Leo Wolman, has
been in session in Racine for three
days trying to arrive at an agree
able sellout with the A. r. of L. of =
ficials. The demands of the work
ers are 20 per cent increase (the
companies have offered 10 per
cent? and 6o-cent hourly mini
mum.
The Auto Workers Union, affi-
lated with the T, q. q. L., has Is
sued a leaflet to the strikers, point
ing out these maneuvers and call
ing upon the rank and ff4e to raise
the following demands:
1, No going back TO work on the
promises Of arbitration. No secret
negotiations.
2. A 20 per cent increase IN
wages.
3. No calling off of the mass
picketing until the workers vote to
end the strike with a guarantee Of
the winning Of our demands.
A. Withdrawal of the police from
the picket lines.
8. Broadening of the strike com
mittee to include elected strikers
from all departments.
Nash Strikers Resent Auto Board
Plan
KENOSHA, Wis, April 9-The
leaflet issued Friday morning by
the Auto Workers Union to the
Nash Motor workers here, which
called for rejection of the proposed
settlement, crystallized the resent
ment Of the men against the Auto
Labor Board and the top-leadership
Of the A. F. Of L. The president Of
the Federal Union, John Milikent,
read the leaflet to a group of the
strikers in the union headquarters
and agreed with its characterize
ton Of the settlement as exactly the
same thing as Nash had offered the
strikers at the beginning of the
struggle and which had been re-
jected at that time.
Though the Racine strikers voted
to accept the terms of settlement on
Friday, due to an agreement
reached previously, they are bound
to remain out until all three plants
vote to accept a settlement.
Now more than ever before the
Detroit auto workers must show
their solidarity with their striking
brothers in Wisconsin. They must
be on their guard against the
strikebreaking tactics Of the Auto
Labor Board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Lancaster C.W.A. Union
Appeals for Funds

LANCASTER, Pa, April 8. -
The Relief Workers here, with Of
fees at 9 East Frederick St, APP
peals to all workers, workers or
CARNATIONS, intellectuals and SYM
pathizers for funds with which to
carry on the work of organizing
the fired C.W.A. workers and those
on work relief" Leaflets must
be printed, meetings held, and
headquarters provided to carry on
the work, All contributions should
be sent to the above address.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
By JOE DALLETT
Youngstown District Secretary Of
the Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial UniOn)

In0HStriA Dn1On)
The rank and file membership of
the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, at
least 80 per cent of whom are new
members of newly formed lodges
formed since the NR.A), are
first beginning to feel the real
contradictions between the official
policies of the A. A. and their
desire to fight for higher wages
and better conditions. The result
is a wave Of revolt sweeping thru
the organization, expressed crudely,
often in most confused manner,
but expressed with constantly
growing force and also growing
clarity.
In some cases the revolt is
wrongly expressed by staying away
from lodge meetings, or by mass
refusal to pay dues, resulting in
the fact that many of the new
lodges have been refused delegates
to the national convention which
opens in Pittsburgh April IT (Clair-
ton, Pa, Wheeling Steel, Steuben-
vile, Ohio, etc.. In many lodges
where the signed-up membership
runs into the hundreds (Republic
Steel, Youngstown and others and
even thousands, the attendance
and dues payments ar so low
that not only viii there be no
delegates allowed 10 the conYen-
ton, but even lodge meetings are
frequently not held because Of
lack Of quorum Of present.
The recent Pittsburgh conference
of delegates from lodges in Dis
tricts l, and of the A. A.
brought out the contradictions
between the rank and file and the
of3cialdom, with the conference
defeating the officials by voting
overwhelmingly that it is the SEN
timent of this conference" that,
should recognition Of the A. A.
not be granted, a general strike
should be declared. The officials
from the International Office, who
tried to prevent and then to de-
feat the vote on this question, were
successful only in getting into the
motion the point that this was no
decision, that this conference had
no power to make any such deci-
sion but that this vote only regis
tered the sentiment" of the gath
ering. At least one lodge president,
8 Youngstown man, openly at
tackled Louis Leonard, Interna-
tional secretary treasurer, as q
strikebreaker and "fabor-faker" at
this conference.
The sixth district conference of
the A. A. Including lodges in
Ohio, Buffalo and Michigan), held
March 81 in Munroe, Mich. (where
a considerable section of the
membership is in revolt against
Mike Tighe and Co.., again de-
ciSively defeated the officialdom by
voting down International Vice
President Ed Miller's objections to
motion instructing Tighe to write
the American Iron and Steel In
stitute informing them that if rec
ognition and wage increases are
not granted by June 3d.. the day of
expiration Of the annual agree
meat signed by the A. A. with the
sheet and tin plants where they
now have contracts, the A. A. will
declare a general strike. Miller
repeatedly took the floor to stem
the tide, and was defeated by an
almost unanimous vote.
Clean out the international
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Nash Strikers Solid
Despite Press Scares
And Police Brutality
Force Release of Nine
By Strike Settlement

NEW YORK.-Nine workers of
the American Display Company who
were arrested while on strike last
week and charged with "felonious
assault" we're released yesterday in
accordance with the terms Of the
strike settlement.
The workers, who had been strik-
ing under the Sign Writers Union,
demand the release of the nine boys
as one condition in the settlement
Of the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Custom TailOrS
Strike in Calf.
Led by Needle Trades
Industrial Union

LOS ANGELES. Calf, April
tBy MaiD Custom tsilors have re-
sponded 90 per cent to q general
strike call issued by the custom
Tailors' Union, affiliated with the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, against conditions in the
shops and the attempts Of the
bosses to force company union on
the workers.
The tailors, who had been work
ing unlimited hours at piece work,
had been making as little as $50
and SIS for week OF so to so hours.
Their demands are:
l. Thirty-fiYe hour week.
2, A minimum wage scale.
g. Week work system.
4. Equal division Of work.
5. Full union recognition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10

PATTERSON W. I. X. HOLDS BA-
PATTERSON. The Workers
tionsl Relief invites all worker
izations as well as individuals "
attend the opening banquet Il
Saturday, April IA, .. m. At
| inrton St