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Continued from rage ~
course which marked most of the
sessions.
The "all-American team" Of
business and banking, agriculture
and industry, and capital and
labor, about which President
Roosevelt exclaimed in his ad-
dress to the bankers, is not yet
ready to settle down and play as
a team with the President calling
all the signals from his position
as national quarterback.
Resentment Of ths rank and file
of the financiers who assembled
here has pretty we'll upset the well
laid plans made by the associa.
tion's leaders before the conven.
ton met. They had been fearful
of what the President might say.
They talked with the White House
as much and as often as possible
to get him to make a soft"
speech.
Speech Resented
The President made what might
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-07
500 In Reading Brave
Blizzard to Support
Scotisboro Protesi

READING, Pa, Feb. give hun
dred persons turned out In the worst
snow storm this year to attend &
Scottsboro, anti-fascist protest meet
ing last Thursday night at the Wash =
ington st. Presbyterian Church.
The meeting unanimously passed a
resolution to be sent TO Gov. B. n
Miller of Alabama, and President
Roosevelt, demanding the release Of
the nine innocent Scottsboro boys
dishanding Of the Ku Klux Khan and
other fascist terrorist gangs, the rigft
Of Negroes and their white allies to
arm in self-defense and death t.
lynchers.
Speakers included w. G. Brown
Section Organizer of the Interna
tional Labor Defense; Rev. HaIioway
pastor Of the church; Nettie Wess-
ner, organizer of the United Front
Unemployment Council; william
Powell; Rev. Wainwright, pastor OF
Zion Baptist Church; Rev. Jabos
pastor Of Readig NJ. E. Church. This
Community Church Choir rendered
several selections Howard B. Keehn
gave a vocal solo. SAVE Them 8
new Scottcboro song.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-07

@How come we get into this Unei1l-
ployed Council movement, you say2
Well, I been acquainted with the
working-class movement for a long
time. I went to Hamlin, Texas, west
Of Fort Worth, looking for work with
the c. W. A. When I got there,
found the unemployed had TO travel
20 miles to register.
II seen the need, 50 I got every
body together one night, and we ap-
pointed a committee TO go Into the
registration place and bring 1t back
to Hamlin. We cid this. Then
drifted into Fort Worth and came
in contact with the Unemployed
Council, and they elected ME dele
gate to the convention"
The G. w. A. workers now have
their own organlzation-and white
and Spanish are united both in this
ana in the Unemployed Council. 1t
was in this territory that T. E. Bar
low, an organizer, was arrested for
trying to unite the Spanish and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-07
Farmer-LabOr Party Does Not
Fight for Workers Insurance
Lundeen Introduced Bill in Congress Under the
Mass Pressure Of Minnesota Workers

effective measures in the interests o.
the workers in the Workers Unem-
Pigment Insurance Bill. This cam
paign received the support Of A. 2. Of
L. unions and Farmer Labor Party
locals. AS a result Of this struggle
the Farmer-Lsbor-co controlled House
OF Representatives killed Olsons
b-ain-child, but did not consider the
Workers Bill.
The Governor called q special ses-
sion OF the Legislature in Deem Der,
1888, for liquor legislation. and re
lief as an afterthought. In his mes
sage to the Legislature, Olson did not
even repeat his former lip service to
unemployment insurance. His entire
message did not even mention it.
When a delegation Of the Unemployed
Council again appeared before the
Legislature, and demanded that the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill be introduced, the Faune--Labor
representative Bennett offered to in
troduce it, which he did. House Bill
No. 22S was referred % a committee,
where il was quietly killed without a
word from Bennett or any other Far
mer-Labor legislator. The LegiSla-
ture adjourned in January without
word on the floor by anyone, in
Guiding its so-caIed sponsor" Ben
nett, for the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill.
1t is clear, from the whole record Of
the F2rmer-Labor Party leadership,
that Congressman Lundeen's ac-
ton in Congress is merely the result
Of the growing mass support for the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill. It is this that causes MIR. Lun-
deem to act now. From the whole work
Of the Fa-mer-Labor Party, Of which
Lundeen is an outstanding leader and
one who poses as a left" leader at
that, it is clear th2t only mass pres
sure will force real consideration for
the Bill. Lundeen may not adopt the
same crude line as did Olson and
Bennett in the Legislature. He may
even speak in favor of it before Con
gress, conscious as he is Of the mass
pressure and growing sentiment
among the millions Of unemployed
throughout the country for unem-
ployment insurance at the expense Of
the government and the employers.
But we must not rely on Lundeen to
make the fight for Unemployment In
surance. We must not forget that
the whole record of the Olsons, Lun-
deems, and Benefits bellies every
word they say. They have done
everything in their power to sidetrack
and prevent any mass struggles Of the
workers. It is only by such mass
struggle on still greater scale than
in the past, and not by any faith or
illusions in their radical phraseo!ogy,
that it will be possible for the Ameri-
can workers to force the bankers
lackeys in Congress to enact the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-07

it. You had to pay for the flop Just
the same, and for the soup.
The federal government, then,
took over the S. G. I. and made 1t
into a transient shelter. The food
was terrible and the hunks were
cooty-ridden. They made us work
four days week and gave us so
cents for it. I went back to the
waterfront, because II you stayed In
the shelter you couldn't even look
for job.
1--WE were working at a military
barracks, outside of New Orleans.
They started making us pay fer
transportation out of the 90 cents.
We organized d Relief Workers Pro-
tective Union. We sent delegation
to the state Relief Administration
and they supplied us with buses
open-air buses, but still transporta-
ton"
Negroes on the Job were getting
ready to organize by themselves
when Postek, who is just 81, ap-
preached them.
"They said they didn't know us
white fellaS would want to take them
in" he said. They were very glad
and, by the way, they are good
fighters"
The day after the white workers
started to ayitate for unity with the
Negroes, however, the latter were
JIM rowed.
THE c. w. A. workers IN Aigiers,
across the river from New Orleans,
struck and won," said Postek. THE
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union led strike on the S. S. Mum
dixie, of the Munson Line, for back
wages. The engineers and mates
struck together early one morninr.
and by 1 pm. everybody was paid off
In full. The mass meeting that sent
me here had 900 attending, but what
we need is more organization, and
still mors Qrasninattas' -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-07
EMO STEIN

-FOUR A. r. OF L. local unions OF
I quarrymen and paving cutters
with q membership of 600 sent Elmo
Stein, "a, to represent them at the
National Convention Against Unem-
ployment.
I'VE received word of the A. r. OF
LIS talking about various unempioy-
ment bills" Stein explained, 80 1
started talking about the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill. There
was the usual red-baiting that goes
along with that kind of thing, but we
put it through our locals, and here
I am"
Stein is a cIean-cut blond youth
He does not belong to the Communist
Party and certainly doesn't sound
ready to join it. He said, however.
The biggest complaint the oppo-
sition made to my coming to the con-
vention was the threat that 1 would
not get chance to express our locals
views. Well, I've had plenty of time
to do it. Everything has been
thoroughly democratic. I'm perfectly
satisfied.
There are grumblings III my 10
cality against A. F.. of l.. bureau
cracy, and if the proposed NRA.
code goes through, with big wage
cuts for us, there's going to be
trouble"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-07
By WILLIAM sCHNE1DERMAN

MINNEAPOLIS. - The action Of
Congressman Lundeen in introducing
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill into Congress might give
the impression to some workers that
Congressman Lundeen and the rest
Of the Farmer-Labor leaders in
Minnesota are really in favor Of I'M
employment insurance at the expense
/ Of the government and the en-
ployers. A glance at the record,
however, will show that not only is
Lundeen's action a gesture made as
| a result Of growing mass pressure,
but that the whole record of the
Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota
shows that its leaders have fought
against and sabotaged every struggle
Of the workers for unemployment
insurance.
When Floyd B. Olson was elected
Governor on the Farmer-Labor ticket
four years ago, q huge State Hun
ger March Of thousands of workers
placed the demand for unemploy-
ment insurance and relief before the
State Legislature and the Farmer
Labor Governor in the winter OF 1881,
but outside Of expressions of Sym
pathy' and promises, the demands
were completely ignored by the
Farmer-Labor legislators.
The fight for unemployment in
surance led by the Communist Party
and the Unemployed Councils in the
following two years, however, had
their effect on the masses Of workers
and penetrated to the rank and file
Of the Farmer-Labor Party. It was
this sentiment that forced Gov. Olson
to make a gesture at the next ses-
sion Of the Legislature in the winter
Of 1888, and he introduced his own
Unemployment Insurance" Bill. (At
the same session q State Relief
March Of 400 delegates representing
10000 workers and farmers, and
backed up by a demonstration of
10000 Twin Cities workers again de-
manded the enactment Of the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill,
until such time as Federal Unemploy-
ment Insurance was established.)
It Is worthwhile to examine
Olson's bill, In order to see the ex-
tent of trickery to which the Farmer
Labor administration went to deceive
the workers and to please the en-
ployers. ID The bill if passed, would
not go into effe"t until the middle of
"a or later. % It would exclude all
those already unemployed lover
100000 at that time). 90 1t would
exclude railroad workers, domestic
workers, agricultural laborers, and
several other catsgorieS. - 1t would
exclude all those who did not work
minimum number of weeks during
the year before being unemployed.
90 The worker who would have
the rare luck to fulfill these re-
quirementS would then be eligible to
ridiculously small sum for few
weeks in the year. (6l A tax on work
ers' wages would be imposed, and an
equal tax on employers payrolls,
which means that both taxes would
be borne by the worker. This is the
farce that the Farmer Labor Party
dared to insult the workers of Min
nesota, with, and called it "unc-.z..-
Payment insurance"
The Communist Party and Unem-
ployed Councils developed a mass
campaign exposing the fakery of
Olson's bill, in contrast with the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-07
Missouri Frees
7KnOwnLynCherS
Of Negro Youth
Prosecutor Admits State
Had Strong
Case

ST. JOSEPH, MO, Feb. 6.-The
acquittal by an an-white jury of
Walter Carton, one Of seven lynchers
of Lloyd Warner, Negro youth, was
followed up to day by dismissal by
the State Of the charges against the
other six.
In making the announcement, At
torney General Roy McKittrick adj
mitted that the State had strong
case against the seven lyncherS. The
case against Carton was the strong
est, he said.
Il am informed that the jury was
a group of good representative citi-
zens of Buchanan County, and in
view Of the verdict Of not guilty it
would be useless to spend more
money in prosecuting Che other cases
now pending" he stated.
Circuit Judge A. ". Gaddy readily
announced he would grant the dis
nissals.
No action has been taken against
Sheriff Theisen, who was "censured"
by the grand jury for failing to pro-
tect the Negro"
Carton who was acquitted last
week is still held on charge of mali
cious destruction Of property in con-
nection with the attack on the jail
from which Warner was taken to be
Iynched.
(See Editorial on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-07
Socialist Mayor Of
Bridgeport Refuses
Back Job Insurance
Railroads Bill to Limbo;
Hastens to Greet Polish
Fascist General

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Feb. c.
With a loud beng o. his gavel and
= terse referred to the Misce'l"neous
COMMITTEES" Mayor jasper McLeVy
at the Common Council meeting
Monday night, railroaded to the
graveyard the resolution of the I'M
employed Council demanding the en-
dorsement Of the Workers Unom-
Dloyment end Social Jner-"r"H T7'I
by the Bridgeport Socialist" admin
istration. Two Socialist aldermen
who had agreed to speak in favor
Of the bill did not even get d chance
to rise, before McLevy CONSIGNED the
bill to the Council morgue-the Mis-
cellaneous Committee.
A number of workers rose from the
audience present and demanded that
immediate action should be taken On
the Bill. They were silenced. how
ever. by another loud bang from the
Mayors hammer. Many C.W.A. and
unemployed workers RESPONDED TO the
call Of the Unemployed Council and
were among the crowd that packed
the Common Council meeting at the
time the Workers Unemployment In
3urance Bill was read.
Welcomes Fascist
In contrast to the great haste that
McLsvy showed in getting rid Of the
Workers Bill, the Socialist" Mayer
took the time Of the Council to ex-
tend a spsoial invitation to all the
aldermen present to officially greet
the Polish fascist general and muir
derer, Gen. Joceph Haller. This arch
enemy of the Soviet Union and Of
the workers was the conlmander-in in
chief of the Polish armies during the
World War and was responsible for
the murder Of hundreds Of thousands
IF Ukrainian workers during the per-
cd OF the civil war in Russia. Mayer
McLevy and his Socialist adninistra-
ton will officially welcome this white
gua-d militarist Tuesday morning at
The City Hall But to the Socialist"
Mayer the Workers Urewplovrnent
Insurance Bill was not important
enough to be acted rpon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-07
Urges Delivery
Workers to Back
Hotel WalkOut

(By . Food Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-Fellow workers Of
hotels and restaurants. Your strike
may be settled back stage. You'll
have the same suffering over again.
Don't let anybody sell YOU in a bag.
The strike can be won il the delivery
will be stopped to the hotels. No
official viii bring that up to the
rank and file to ask the butchers,
the teanster union, the laundry
workers, the the bakers to come out
in a sympathy strike. Let the rank
and file demand It.
The trouble Is there are too many
Nederations. Unite together. Let
other workers come out with you to
paralyze the food industry.
The constitution and the bylaws
Of the A.F.W., the A. F. Of L., and
the International Geneva Guild all
have the same bylaws. II for two
months or three the due are not
paid you cannot vote for any official.
Unemployment is not recognized.
There lies big weakness in the
unions.
The Food Workers Industrial Union
made an open field for all the ranks
to unite and overtake the industry.
II you join them, even your voice viii
help the unemployed.
You're not a union man only by
carrying book. I call a union man
one who fights together with the
masses. Your sympathetic walkout is
better than your talk or donation.
Get into the militant line with
strikers and the unemployed. You
will see all demands are reached
not by promises but by actions.
Workers are supposed to have a
steady place to live IN peace, and
his voice should talk to the entime
world Of comradeship and friendship.
No wars amongst class conscious
workers. No race hatred. In spite
Il the capitalists do not separate
cut struggle together.
q NJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-07
Call Two Hour Strike in
Jewish Phi ilanthrOpic
Society Agencies To-Day

NEW YORK.-More than 500 en-
ployes Of the Federation Of Jewish
Philanthropic Societies voted unani-
mously at meeting Monday night
to call a two-hour stoppage of work
at the societies institutions, after the
refusal Of the director, Joseph NJ.
Proskauer, to meet their demands
for restoration of pay cuts received
since January, 1929. The stopoage
will be held today from 3 to 5 pm.
Following the stoppage a mass meet
ing will be held at Manhattan In
dustrial High School, Lexington Ave,
and 22nd st.
A mass meeting held last week had
notified the directors of the societies
Of the strike action to be taken if
wages were not restored to the 1929
level,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-07
Bishop Held for
Rape of Negro Girl
Father of 5-MOnth Old
Baby

NEW YORK. Bishop Charles
EEanue! Grace, white, of the House of
Prayer for All Peop'e was in court
Monday charged with raping 21-year
old Minnie Lee Kanbbell, colored
member of his flock.
Miss Kambbe'l charged the bishop
with being the father Of her 5-month
old girl baby. She testified that he
had taken her from her home in
Brooklyn to Washington, Baltimore,
Charlotte, N. G. and other cities. The
58-year cd bishop YVES arra,gned on
Mann Act charge. He was released
on $500 bond, and drove from the
Federal Court in Brooklyn in a luxu-
rious limousine with a Iveried chauf-
feur.
The House Of Prayer for All People
is said to boast 10 ediflces through
out the o. S. and 100000 communi-
cants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-07
l,5M Demonstrate
at Cleveland for
JObleSS Insurance
" orkers Force Council
To Hear Demands for
Relief and Jobs
Special to the Daily Worker

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 8. - Fiji
teen hundred jobless and C. w. A.
workers demonstrated at the City Hall
here Monday night, demanding that
the city administration endorse the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill, and petition the Roosevelt gov
eminent for the continuance of the
c. W. A. program.
The City Council Chambers were
empty, but the police attempted to
bar the workers from entering, giving
permission for only ten delegates to
enter to present the workers demands.
The workers, sur3ing forward, forced
the police to permit them to enter the
City Hall lobby, where a meeting was
held despite the police mobilization to
prevent I. o. Ford, Communist can
didate for Mayor in the last election,
from speaking.
Ford's exposure of the Roosevelt
New Deal was greeted enthusiastically
by the workers; and when he outlined
the Workers Unemployment IN
Surance Bill and the workers de-
mands for relief at double the present
rates, more than 900 Of the workers
surged past the police and forced
their way into the Council Chambers.
Inside the Council Chambers, CO.
wan, the workers spokesman, pre-
sented the demands for the endorse
ment Of the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill the continuation and
enlargement of the c. w. A. proyram
to include all registered c. w. A.
workers, and immediate cash relief to
all jobless workers.
The demonstration ended with the
workers voting to follow up their reso-
lutions and demands by mass pressure
on each Ward Councilman through
demonstrations and actions modified
by the Unemployed Ward Assemblies
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-07
Weinstock TO Speak to
Rochester Workers on
Unemployed STRUGGLES

ROCHESTER, N. Y. Feb 6-Louis
WclnStock, secretary Of the National
a. T. Of L. Committee fo< Unamp,oy-
ment Insurance and Relief, viii
speak before the Roche-.er Confer
ence for Unemployment Insurance
on Tuesday. February 9Th at 8 pm.
at Convention Hall.
Weinstock will report to the Roch-
ester workers on the Unemployed
Convention now IN session in wash
ington and viii outline program
OF struggle for relief and unemploy-
ment insurance in the A. F. OF L
locals here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-07
'Uention Figures, As Seen By Marguerite Young

THE United Mine workers Of Amer
lea local to which H. F. Robinson,
Negro miner, belonged, In New Ken
sington, Pennsylvania, blacklisted
him in 1922 for National Mine Work
erS Union activities. He hasn't had
a steady job since then, but he said,
ut doesn't make much difference:
even II we Negroes are in the U. M.
w. A. or the A. F. of l.. steel and
glass workers unions, the general
run Of US find mining and steel work
practically closed to U.s."
Robinson is delegate from the
New Kensington Unemployed Coun-
Gil. He spoke at three Negro churches,
and they endorsed him as delegate
to the National Convention Against
Unemployment.
I've attended lots Of conventions.
Including q. M. w. A. conventions, -
he said, "but I've learned more here
In three days than I learned in them
In three weeks because here the
rank and filters does most of the talk
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-07
Millions GOuged Out
By AL Heads in Bic
'Kick-Back' on Piers
Maynard Unit Starts to
Root Daily Among the
Workers and Farmers

BOSTON, Mass.-Entering actively
into the Daily Worker circulation
drive, the members Of the unit In
Maryland, Mass. have divided them
selves into four competitive groups,
with the object Of obtaining 30 new
subs by March /.
One group will approach farmers,
8 second G. w. A. and unemployed
workers, q third will concentrate on
an American Wooden Mill plant, a
fourth, the street group, will work
in the immediate neighborhood OF
the unit.
Each group challenges the other to
secure the largest number Of subs.
The unit as a whole challenges the
unit in Fitchburgh TO a Socialist
competition in the Daily Worker cir
culation campaign. How about 1t,
Fitchburgh?