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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09

polled 5801.
Unofficial state reports give Ford
1885 votes for Governor.
Youngstown figures give BALLET
821 votes for Congress, compared
with 338 for the Socialist candi-
date.
Taylor Springs Workers Win
TAYLOR SPRINGS, Ill, Nov. 8.
The Workers ticket consisting of
combined Socialist and Commu-
mist slate, carried the elections by
two-to-one vote. However, the
candidate for sheriff, Frank Pascik,
was defeated by only two votes, 13e
against 141 for his opponent.
In the present elections the DEM
ocrats received only 81 straight votes
compared with 202 Democrats last
year. Reports from other parts of
Montgomery County though still in
complete indicate widespread sup
port for the Workers Ticket.
Big Vote in Girard
YOUNGSTOWN, o., Nov. 8.-Re-
ports show that in Girard, nearby
town controlled by the Steel Trust,
the Communist candidate for State
Senator, Ben Gray received 846
votes compared with 887 for the Re-
publican and 1414 for the Democrat.
This vote, which represents ire
mendous increase over previous
elections, is of especial Importance
in the face of the open police ter
rorism of the Steel Trust against
the workers.
In Mahoning County, where
Girard is located, the Socialist
Party polled 200 votes for the entire
county compared with 1000 for the
last election, whereas Communist
candidates doubled and tripled their
votes, incomplete returns show.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09
By Bwek

comrades, be set aside as a day of
united working class rallies against
Fascism and for National independ-
ence, and to popularize the ultimate
aims Of the working class move
ment.
"(c) To ensure the success Of any
steps by the Parliamentary Labor
Party for the amendment of the
Unemployed Assistance Act in favor
of the voorhees,, campaign be I'M
dertaken to rouse the organized and
unorganized workers in support of
the demands of the unemployed for
abolition of the present pauper
scales Of relief and the granting of
adequate winter maintenance.
"(d) That effectively to combat
the attempts of the imperialist
landholders to draw numbers of
working farmers under their in
fluence for anti-Labor purposes and
to the detriment of the real in
terests of the farmers themselves
the working class movement takes
steps to organize the small farmers
in alliance with the urban workers
for mass action to enforce the de-
miands Of the Labor Party branches
for relief from rates, division of
branches, land allotments for labor
ers, and increased wages for the
agricultural workers. a
"(e) That in order to transform
the struggle for Workers Republic
into living issue and to arouse
the working class to the fight for
its realization, the Labor Party in
the Oireachtas move for the aboli-
ton of all vestiges of imperialist
domination: dismissal of the gov
ernor-general, the dissolution Of the
Dali and the summoning of gen.
timely representative assembly, in
which all democratic sections could
participate, and so remove the main
barrier to the realization of Work
ers' Republic-foreign interference
in the country's domestic affairs.
THAT the operation of action on
similar lines against the Northern
imperialists be the subject of joint
consultation between the Irish and
Northern Labor Parties and the
Central Committee of the Commu-
mist Party and It's northern sec
lions.
1.-THE Communist Party is sin
cerely convinced that action along
these or similar lines is the only
way to rouse the working class in
the struggle for a Workers Repub-
lie, against its Fascist imperialist
enemy and to overcome the disas-
trous divisions which have hitherto
retarded the development of a
powerful working class movement
and given the counter-revolution its
chance for mischief among the
Irish people.
Should our proposals for a
mutual understanding on these is
sues meet with the approval of your
Conference, we suggest that rep
resentatives of the incoming Ad-
ministrative Council meet together
with representatives from our Cen
trail Committee to enable whatever
understanding for joint effort can
be arrived at to be worked out in
detail.
Further, that mutual abstention
from hostile criticism shall be OBJ
served by all parties supporting the
United Front, and this we under
take to observe in our weekly and
monthly journals and spoken propa-
| ganda.
Trusting this letter will have the
careful and sympathetic considera-
ton of your Conference.
With fraternal greetings,
Yours sincerely,
SEAN MURRAY,
"On behalf of the
CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
COMMUNIST PARTY OF
IRELAND"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09
Nazt CriSis>>More Terror

EEARING more food riots in Germany,
the Fascist rulers have resorted to
some demagogic trickery. According to
the Hitler governments own figures, food
prices have risen IL per cent over last
year. Wages in this period have gone down sharply
With starvation looming this winter food hoard
ing is going on apace. The Hitler government al
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09
What the Election Results in Neev York City Shoev
An Editorial

election campaign does not end with the close of
the campaign Now than ever it is necessary
to organize the working class for fight for more
relief and unemployment insurance, for higher
wages, for the right to strike, picket and organize
and against and fascism.
The tens of thousands of new Communist voters
must be brought into the Party as the basic condi-
ton for strengthening the fight against the capt.
talist system
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09

A NEW Negro Congressman, Arthur w.
n Mitchell, has been elected in Chicago,
taking the place of the defeated Repubh-
can, Oscar DePriest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09
Continued from Page y

increased; the wage-cutting campaign will be
speeded up; and relief will be cut as the capital
lists move to take advantage of their victory
This places before every member of the working
class the urgent question of organizing more mill
tant struggles defeat the greater attacks Of the
ruling class. The struggle around the life and
death issues raised by the Communist Party in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09
A TEXAS CoMRADE REPORTS

The following letter was received
from a comrade in Texas to whom
we had sent some literature.
Il received the literature you sent
and it sure was help. I sure did
enjoy Iron Coal and Komsomol."
The Party Organizer" helps
quite lot with a new Party mem
Der. I joined the Party in January,
1884. Now there are six members
here. If I could have had access to
literature, I feel sure there would
have been ten now. The unit here
is in the leadership o an organiza-
ton created last March. The polit-
ical level of this group is surprising.
BY fall, a good movement can be
built among the farmers.
Faced by drought, and under
the whiplash of the A. A. A., the
dirt farmers are rapidly waking up.
Under the correct revolutionary
guidance and leadership, the farm
movement will be tremendous in
AI1CIACd. Lie HlOSG Careful ana
never-ceaSing work must be done
by all Party members who are in
contact with the farmers.
II wonder if all Districts carry
on a campaign for the Daily
Worker. If District 20 has, since
I joined, I have never been adj
viSed about it. 1t was mentioned
only about three times at the con-
vention and Ia raw recruit, and
a mail order one at that-waS one
OF those who had anything to say
about the Daily Worker. I feel sure
if the District Committees would
concentrated on the Daily Worker a
"P. j."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09
Party Life
Steps Are Taken
Fe Remedy Werk
IN PhAadeIphia

NOW more than ever when the
~ attack Of the ruling class De-
comes sharper we can see more
clearly our organizational weak
nesseS. In a period when our units
must become stronger in order to
withstand this attack and must be-
come real leaders in the shops and
nelghborhoods, we must have the
initiative to develop and lead
struggles. We find units who still
don't know whet to do if a unit
organizer does not get the directives
from the section, or If the unit
organizer does not come to a meet
ing. Also the question of activilng
our comrades which comes up at
every meeting, and Is answered by
the claim of the comrades that they
are too busy in mass organizations
and therefore cannot do any Party
work. Those are the two weak
nesses which must be remedied.
In Section 3, Philadelphia Dis
trict, we have taken the following
steps to improve the units:
L. A member of the Section
Committee Is assigned and must
work with a unit burO.
2. To work out a monthly plan
and show the unit members how
TO carry on active work in their
neighborhOod.
3. To pick one or two comrades
to whom he will constantly ex-
plain the work and prepare them
as leaders of the unit.
4. To see that the unit organ
izer together with the unit burO
study the unit membership and
are in position to know the
function of each member, in mass
organization, union, etc, how
much time Is spent there, and to
assign them to such work that
they can do.
5. Every week TO call in a diff
ferent cOmrade to the BurO and
discuss with them the work In the
shop, union, neighbOrheod, etc.
To take up with him all the ques-
lions. Does he bring in the
Party campaigns?" How does he
do it? What are the results of his
work? How many Daily Worker
readers does he have? How many
members did he recruit into the
Party.
6. The Section representative is
held responsible for the fulfill
ment of this task.
7. To have a strict check up on
old unreliables who always shirk
unit assignments, and make an
example, if necessary.
In this way we hope to train the
units to carry out their tasks as
Communists by activizing the entire
membership and becoming the
leaders in their shops and neighbor-
hoods.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09
SNAP INTO 1T.

Comrade Cannes swung into the
100000 drive fully two weeks ahead
OF Del, but is ahead by only 1913 per
cent, or a little over $50. The $50
contribution below helps tremen-
dously, but World Front is generally
in a mapping state. We call upon
the witness for defense-and ac-
ton!
Sympathizer .........................S 500
Williamsbridge Branch of
League Against War and
Fascism ............................... 5000
Previously received .......... 1887
Total to date.....................S16S.I
Quota-S58e
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08

The Congress to be held in New
York on Dec. 81, % and % at the
Union M. E. Church, 229 w. 48th
Street, will hear prominent speak
ers of the Republican, Democratic,
Socialist and Communist Parties.
The opening session, which will be
held at the Central Opera House,
9th Street and Third Avenue, will
be open, with the general public
admitted. Round table discussions
on problems of youth in industry,
and agriculture, unemployment and
social insurance, education and rec
reation, and the international sit
uation will take place the next day.
Endorsements Received
Among the endorsers of the New
York Regional Congress are E. Ed
Gilman of the League for Industrial
Democracy; Rudolph Newbauer, Y.
M. G. A. National Council; Ben
Fisher, Young Peoples Socialist
League; J. Little, Young Commu-
mist League; Jeanette Krutis, Y. w.
G. A. Industrial Council, and many
others from church, liberal and
radical groups.
The American Youth Congress,
which was originally called by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
American Youth Congress Against Hunger
Will Meet on Jan 4 and in Washington

NEW YORK.-Assembled in
Washington Jan. and at the
Mecca Auditorium will be dele
gates representing hundreds of
thousands of youth. The call is
sued by the Combinations Commit
tee of the American Youth Con-
gress, which is being sent to youth
organizations all over the country,
says, in part: THE spectre of hun
ger and want, resulting from mass
unemployment, faces the youth
with grim reality this Winter.
Mounting military budgets and
sharpened international relations
bring nearer the possibility of out
break Of new world war. Openly
fascist forces raise their heads with
greater audacity. Policies of edu-
cational retrenchment are intensi-
fled. Wages of youth in industry
are reduced to unbearable levels.
THE purpose of this National
Congress of Youth is to work out
the concrete steps necessary to
carry the program adopted at the
first American Youth Congress into
action; to focus the attention of the
great masses of American people
upon this program and these ac-
tons; and to present to Congress
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08

campaign, the Daily Worker urges
immediate response. This can be no
long drawn out campaign. Congress
will meet in January. Simultane-
ously with the opening of the United
States Congress, another congress
will open in Washington-the
Workers National Congress for IN
employment Insurance.
At the time when the 5000 work
ers who will attend the three-day
sessions of the National Congress
for Unemployment Insurance meet,
they must be supported by the mil
lions who demand the passage of
the Workers Bill.
To Publish Returns
Tabulations and complete returns
Of the vote will be published weekly
in the Daily Worker. At the COM
pletion of the voting on Jan. /, the
ballots will be presented to Congress
in the form of petition for the
enactment of the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill.
In announcing the campaign, the
Daily Worker has sent out copies of
the following letter to all district
Daily Worker representatives and
to all district organizers of the
Communist Party:
Dear Comrades:
"The Daily Worker has under
taken a poll on the Workers I'm
employment Insurance Bill CH.R.
1889 which is to be presented to
the Unemployment and Social In
surance Congress being convened
in Washington, Jan. 5, and I,
1885. 1t is important that the in
coming United States Congress
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08

Viola lima and her so-called Cen
trail Buro for Young America" after
she visited Germany and held con-
ferences with many high govern
ment officials, was supposed to
unite the youth behind a program
Of forced labor camps for all youth,
apprenticeship of from one to five
years, with little pay and opposi-
ton to all radical organizations.
The united front of liberal and
radical organizations, representing
100000 youth, defeated Viola's
fascist plans and united on pro-
gram which includes struggle
against war and fascism, and re-
placement of transient and c. c. G.
camps with jobs and unemploy-
ment insurance.
The representation at the Ma
tional Youth Congress will be one
for each organization, two for each
national, state or city-wide central
body, and delegates which will be
elected at the regional congresses.
Calls for the National Congress can
be had by addressing the Continual
tons Committee, American Youth
Congress, liz East Nineteenth
Street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
A BILL
TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Be it enacted by nd o Representa-
ives of the United States Congress assembled
That this Act shall be known the title THE
Unemployment and Social Insurance Act"
SEC. q The Secretary of Labor is hereby
and directed establishment
system of unemployment pur-
of providing insurance for all workers
employed through fault of their equal
10 local administered
and regulations prescribed by Secretary con-
ormiy with the and provisions this through
unemployment insurance commissions composed Of
and file members Of workers and farmers organizations
Funds for such insurance shall provided
expense Of the employers
of Congress that funds
shall be secured by taxing inheritance gifts
10 taxing individual and corporation per year
IL and No contribution any levied
10 shall the unemployment per
IA plus So for each dependent.
is SEC. g. The Secretary Of Labor further
Is and directed to provide the establishment
II of social insurance in like amounts
18 conditions set forth in section of this
19 Of paying workers
90 because of parttme work. Sickness accident
81 maternity
benefits of this Act shall be extended to
color religious political opinion or afiation
IS whether they be industrial agricultural domestic pro-
rs fessona workers. for all time lost
qualified for benefits OF this Act because
work in place Of strikers at less than normal
rates. under unsafe unsantary conditions
longer than the prevailing union standards
cular trade and locality at unreasonable
from home
Figures
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08

and the President the demands of
the American youth"
Prominent Speakers
The National Congress will open
with addresses by prominent per-
sonages and then will go on to
round table discussions on unem-
ployment, war, fascism, education,
industry and agriculture. Report
ers elected by each group will then
bring recommendations to the gen
eral Congress.
After the discussion on the re-
ports and voting on the resolutions
proposed, delegations will be elected
to present the proposals to the
President, to members of the House
of Representatives and the Senate.
These delegations will then report
back to the Congress and it will
close with addresses by speakers of
the most important and largest
youth organizations.
The National Congress is to be
held at the Masonic Auditorium,
Tenth and U Streets, Washington.
Regional Congresses are being
held all over the country, in prep
aration for the National Congress.
Among these will be one in Ann
Harbor, Michigan, Buffalo, Chicago
and New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08

forward In support of the Workers
Bill and elect delegates TO the Ma
tional Congress.
Less than one month remains be-
fore the historic National Congress
for Unemployment Insurance will
convene. The Congress will be the
expression Of the needs Of millions
Of workers, of those now working
and whose lives are haunted with
the spectre Of unemployment. It
will be the expression of the jobless
millions who live on the Roosevelt
hunger dole and Of the greater
number who are denied all relief.
PopuIarize Workers Bill
In launching this campaign for
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill, the Daily Worker has
called upon all its readers to under
take the widest possible campaign
Of popularizing the Workers Bill
and all its provisions as compared
with the various fraudulent schemes
advanced by Roosevelt and scores
of others.
Today it becomes necessary for
every worker to scquaint himself
with the Workers Bill so that he
can answer every question put to
him concerning it. Briefly, what
are the provisions of this bill which
has received the backing of millions
of workers, farmers and profession
ais?
When the Communist Party first
brought it forward it was couched
in the simplest and most brief
manner possible. When introduced
into Congress, it became necessary
to couch it in the formal language
of legal procedure. Yet today, in
its brief thirty-two lines, 1t re-
mains document that is under
standable to every worker. For this
reason, the ballots distributed by
the Daily Worker carry reprint Of
the bill as it was introduced into
Congress.
Wide Endorsement
The Workers Bill, which has been
endorsed by 2,400 A. F. of L. locals,
by six State Federations of Labor,
by the national conventions of six
international unions, by scores of
central labor bodies and city coun-
ellis, sets forth four provisions for
genuine unemployment insurance.
These are its provisions:
Insurance benefits shall be
paid to all workers when unem-
ployed; to the aged, the sick and
disabled.
2-Compensation to be equal to
average wages and in no case to
fall below standard of health and
decency.
3-Benefit payments to become
effective Immediately to meet the
present needs Of the employed and
unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
k and File OH UNIV. A. Ballot in District )

the coal miners in their voting. I'VE
are for the rank and file and
against the machine" is being said
by many coal miners.
The International Elections
The International elections will
be held on the same day. In these
John L. Lewis has ruled the rank
and file candidates off the ballot.
They are not there for interna-
tional president, vice president and
secretary-treasurer. But the names
do appear for delegates to the A. F.
of L. Convention.
The rank and file coal miners
decided to vote for only the four
places on the international ballot.
That will be for James Emery for
teller and for John F. Sloan, James
Emery and George Green for dele
gates to the A. F. of L. Convention.
At the same time the miners are
demanding special international
convention TO hear charges against
John l.. Lewis.
The situation looks bright for the
rank and file coal miners. They
will pull majority vote in the Dis
trict 5 election, and also pile up a
big vote in the International cleo
ton.
Together with this, the miners
are taking steps to see that they
are not cheated in these elections.
For this purpose there will be a
delegated conference of the dele
gates from all of the local unions
in District on Dec Is Sunday in
California, Pa. The local unions
will send tabulated vote of their
elections and the rank and file will
tabulate their own vote.
We will take office If We have to
go there and threw them out. say
the rank and file coal miners. They
mean business.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08

Arnold City, decided only to sup
port the candidate selected at the
rank and file miners conference.
Joseph ("Scotty') O'Hara of Rem
ton, Pa, is the rank and file can
didate for vice president.
For secretary treasurer the race
is only between the Lewis man
William Hargest-and the candi-
date of the rank and file, Robert
Crawford of Richeyville.
In board member districts 3 and
7 there are two rank and file can
didates. One of these is Joseph
Yablonski (Sub-District a.. He is
the president of the Crescent local.
This is big mine of the Pittsburgh
Coal Company.
Elections Dec. IL
In Sub-District the candidate
is Ted Gall. He is a well-known
rank and file fighter. He is OPP
posed by John Murray, the present
appointed official and relative of
Phil Murray, international vice
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
BY JOHN BARNETT

The masses of farmers over the
4 untry have particular interest
i the National Congress for I'm
( nployment and Social Insurance.
Not only have thousands of farm
ers been deprived of their only
means of making living, have been
driven from their homes. Not only
does sickness, accident and old age
leave many of them in need, but
they are also faced with the sub
sistence homestead schemes of
Roosevelt and Hopkins. According
to these plans, farmers and work
ers are to be moved onto little plots
of ground, where they must try to
dig out a living. When conditions
are such that in many cases farm
ers have not been making a living
on even SO, 100 or 200 acres, they
must now try to do SO on a few
acres. Not only this, but they must
buy or pay rent for these places.
They cannot make a go of it, and
the government knows it. But per-
haps the subsistence farmer or
worker will work part-time in in
dustryl Indeed, this is the plan!
They should under these circum-
stances be willing to work for the
lowest wages, if they can get job
at all with the 100000 to 16,o00,-
600 already unemployed. Industry
wants cheap labor
In fact this is colossal plan to
dganize forced labor" to regiment
lbverty, to put starvation into a
Straight jacket, to make the farm