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The daily worker., 1934-04-12
"A. +. L. 'NOt Interested"
In Migratory Workers

the A. F. Of L. has generally kept
away from this field, there have
been q few instances where Iocal
ohicials persuaded them 70 tFV 70
organize a migratory group when
they learned the Communists were
active among them Ti1is they IN
dertook but the results have been
too tnCOnsequential to merit more
than passing mention.
Fresno itself. with It's population
Of about 81. 900 has some 10 per cent
native whites. OF these 65 900 about
IS 900 are classed as workers. The
percentage Of workers was much
smaller in 1925, but here, as IN ev-
cry area I visited 50 far. the deep
ening depression threw a great
many women into the labor field,
especially in the packing and can
ming industries. Almost everyone Of
working age, male and female, t1
Fresno County, is in the labor mar
ket. Out Of the $1,000 population,
$4,000 are school children. Out Of
the remaining 81 900, some 5000 are
wives Of business men and wflits
collar workers.
m 1923 there were approximately
1 500 persons who might have been
CHASED as unemployed. This num-
Der was due chiefly 10 the seasonal
nature of the work they did and
was constantly f1uctueting so that
though there were an average Of
800 unemployed, they we're not al
ways the same persons.
In 1890, however, the number Of
registered unemployed jumped 10
the startling figure Of 6,000-or y
times as many as before the de-
preston. This figure rose to 1000
in 1892. In 1888 the registered
unemployed were close 30 1000 and
when the government work relief
projects started more than $4,000
registered. OF this 10000 there were
quite few Implications, such as
the same application for q C.C,C.
Job and C.W.A. job, but officials
estimate that this duplication did
not counterbalanee the number Of
unemployed who did not register
with the government.
Go BE Continued
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
MURDER IN DETROIT

DETROIT. - Three workers met
with very serious injuries Saturday
in the Chrysler- Jefferson plant, De-
partment 482 This accident, which
could have easily killed and manned
q score of workers, is directly due
TO the intensive speed-up driving
system practiced In the Chrysler
plants.
Art Morey and Warren Witte are
now in Harper Hospital awaiting
the results of X-ray examinations
that will determine the possible
amputation of both legs of one and
one of the other.
Speed-up Gradually Increased
In Department 50, which is a re-
pair department, there are at pres
ent three lines running full blast
and fourth line in the process of
construction. For q week and q half
the speed-up of the lines has been
stepped up daily On Saturday. April
7, the line was moving 50 fast that
men had to work at breakneck
speed. The cars were so close that
there was barely room for men to
stand between, and many cars were
actually touching. bumper to bum
per.
In this moving inferno, men must
lie with heads and shoulders un-
derneath the cars, testing brakes
and making various adjustments.
They must stand between or on top
of bumpers to make fan adjust
ments, test radiators, etc. Each car
must be driven under it's own power
to the testing platform to Try out
transmission and to test rear-end
md motor vibration. Since the
speed-up in the assembly depart
The daily worker., 1934-04-12

Truster quoted by DR.. William Writ
to the effect that Roosevelt is only
'the Kerensky Of this revoiution7"
Browder smiled once more and pa
tiently replied, NO, there's no SINH
lsrity. Roosevelt is succeeding for
the moment in increasing the prof
it's Of finance capital-Kerensky
never did"
And these were the most signifi-
cant, the weightiest questions that
they could find to ask-these half
dozen reporters who sat around
Browder in a room of the house in
which the Eighth National Conven-
ton of the Communist Party was
approaching adjournment. The one
who asked the most knowing"
questions addressed his interviewer
cunningly, "Comrade Browder." The
others stuck to their ''Nfr" They
were, as capitalist spokesman in
variably are when they run up
against Communist leader, nom
plussed. The only time they really
saw the satirical iab that lurked
in Browder's answers was when he
told them Communist Party mem
bers pay 2 per cent Of their income,
as dues, and q highly graduated in
come assessment if they have more
than $50 a week. One wanted to
know whether there were many in
the above $50 class.
NO" Browder solemnly replied.
we aren't getting mass support
from the capitalists"
Party Leading Workers Struggles
He had just explained that the
most significant thing shown by the
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
Cultural Activities in Chicago
Dear comrade Gold;

Comrade Gold;
We making headway in cultural the south side
LID members We believe the first chorus Chicago
emphasize singing
sending the mmeographed
meetings educational meetings the
branches etc. The response is good, always.
The cultural lag however serious than most realize
question about it An example, The Chicago pmnares
National Workers Theatre Festival held Sunday
Peoples Auditorium theatre groups performed
before audience that did not half fill the main
who scheduled compete failed to and instead
social affair the top floor of the bdnga birthday
Of their number
empty seats the auditorium with
see the cultural have foowing" Did he himself
what cultural have foowingours the enemys2"
His comment neatly expressed the attitude of many comrades
that cultural activity time
revolutionary
Well still have heavy task before uso
members that skilled proletarian politically
poant and that only agprop
hold bourgeois culture publicity
accomplish this Every poster and eaet only
the cultural carry slogans
these misconceptions understanding of
the struggle the cultural front support
groups that pioneering this field
Comradely yours,
hEr1Vr
The daily worker., 1934-04-12

John Reed Club Dramatic Crour
will present the mass chant, SCOTS
boro;" the Albany Park Jewish
Workers Club Of Chicago will give
a satiric play, blue Eagle" the
Workers Laboratory Theater of
New York will give their now-fa-
nous impressionistic sketch, News
boy" the Moline Dramatic Group
offers play called Graveyard, .
and the Workers Laboratory The
ater of Chicago will present the re-
alistic stock yards play, TN the Hog
House." T"
There will be three evenings of
competition each play lasting only
thirty minutes. A group of COM
petent judges will pick the winning
groups In addition there will be a
guest performance of scenes from
Fortune Heights" by John Dos
PaSsos.
On April IA, the Second National
Theatre Conference Of the League
Of Workers Theaters will be held
at the Peoples Auditorium, PAST w.
Chicago Ave. Three hundred dele
gates from all parts Of the United
States and Canada will attend.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12

men simply ignored them. Five
minutes later the lines again
stopped moving, lights were turned
out and foremen announced q. half
hour lunch period.
Company stool pigeons began
talking among the men, declaring
the accident was due to careless
ness and that the company was not
to blame. They also advised the
men to take up any grievances they
had with their department. repre-
sentatives. Every one asked, "Well.
who the hell is he? We never saw
him" After the half-hour was up.
half the men, particularly those
who showed the greatest indigna-
tion, were sent home.
Many Chrysler workers are now
convinced of the necessity of form
ing a militant fighting organiza :
ton They are certain that a Shop
Committee backed up by workers
ready to take strike action II neces-
sary could have enforced the fol-
lowing demands Of the workers and
made impossible such an accident
as occurred.
1. Slow down the line-give the
men an opportunity. to put In all
parts and to adjust them properly.
2. Cars on the line to be no less
than six feet apart,
g. Eliminate bonus system, pay
straight hourly rates.
4. Control boxes every rs feet so
that workers can themselves stop
the lines in case of emergency.
The Auto Workers Union has is
sued leaflet. calling on all Chrysler
workers to organize and fight
against the murderous speed up
system and for increased wages.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
By Phil Raymond

to understand. He thought the men
were only kicking at the speed up.
Finally, a group of workers started
TO rush toward him determined to
knock him down in order to get to
the control box. It was only then
that ne turned the switch that
stopped the line from going for
ward. Fully a minute passed by
after the men were pinned down.
The victims we're finally extri-
Gated, one with both legs crushed,
one suffering from possible internal
injuries and another with minor
wounds. They were all rushed to
the hospital No sooner were the
workers on their way to the hos
pital then men from the Cost De-
partment came down TO check up
the damage that had been done to
the cars, The men were saving, See
those sons of -. They don't
care about our lives, Just about the
profits"
Anger Of Workers Rises
The rest Of the workers gathered
together. Each realized that 1t
might have been himself, that it
might easily have been 20 workers
instead of four. Heads could have
been crushed, necks broken. All
realized that the whole accident
was entirely due to the murderous
speed-up system. There was talk
of forming department commit
tee elected by the workers to regu-
late the rate Of production and to
put stop to this wholesale murder.
Company officials tried to quiet
things down, The lines we're started
up, but majority of workers re-
fused to go to work. Foremen tried
to break up group gatherings. The
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
Ask About Roosevelt,
Hoover, As Well
As DIR. Writ
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG

CLEVELAND. April lido the
Communists look upon Roosevelt as
essentially a capitalist in philoso-
phy?" capitalist newspapers re-
porter innocently asked Earl Brow
der, General Secretary of the Com
mmist Party.
Roosevelt is the most effective
agent Wall Street has had In sew
ersl years" Browdsr replied. Fl
nance capital never before has re-
ceived such gifts as it is receiving
now"
The reporter could motor would
not-understand If Browder were
correct, why did Socialist Party
leaders approve Of Roosevelt, and
some capitalists oppose hin7 Brow
der smiled. He said:
TITS because of two factors. Stu
pidity, yes: the capitalists have no
monopoly on brains; sometimes
they have a distinct shortage. Be
sides, there is often a division of
labor sometimes the ruling class
has policy Of executing it's pro-
gram through misleaders of the
working class. In Germany the cap
italists worked through the Social
Democratic leaders. We may see
In the United States such q thing
ss finance capital having its poll
cies carried through by Norman
Thomas of the Socialist Party"
But is there no difference be-
tween Hoover and Rooseveltp"
pleaded the reporter, Fastening
back to simpler, solder ground.
yes, there is difference. The
masses feel 1t in their stomachs."
That satisfied the reporter-until
another question brought out that
Browder meant that the American
masses feel" the difference by feel
ing less food in their stomachs, un-
til Browder said, Hoover was not
good leader because his policies
were such as to arouse the masses
. but the masses have less food,
less clothing, more inadequate shell
ter now than they had under Hoo
ver The recovery that is heralded
is the recovery of profits for finance
capitalize big corporations"
Roosevelt Aids Finance Capital
Then surely Mr.. Browder would
agree with the Roosevelt Brain
The daily worker., 1934-04-12

the Philharmonic Orchestra in q
program which includes the Con-
certo Crosse IN G minor, Op. 3,
No. 2, of Francesca Geniniani; /;
Mozsrt's Symphony in G minor,
No. 40, Kodalys Summer Evening;
Paganinis Moto Perpetuo and Ber-
lioz' Overture TO "Benvenuto Gel
hni." This program will be re-
.peated on Friday afternoon and
Saturday night.
Sunday afternoon, Toscanini will
conduct the first of his three Wag-
ner concerts. The program includes
Faust" Overture, the Siegfried
Idyl the Waldweben from "Sieg-
fried" and the Love Scene from
Act II of Tristan and Isolde" with
GeGrtrude Kappel, Marion Telva
and Paul Althouse as soloists.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
First Revolutionary
Modern Dance Group
Started in Chicago

CHICAGO.-The first successful
revolutionary modern dance group is
getting under way here with the
organization Of the New Dance
Group Of Chicago.
The group, which meets every
Friday night at 20 East Ontario St,
is to affiliate with the New York
organization of the same name.
Male and female workers who wish
to join the group will find it under
competent direction.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
"COn,n,ttristFIGn1e Continues
To Burn" Admits C0ering

BERLIN (By Mai) Admission that the Communist
Party of Germany continues to exist despite the murderous
Nazl terror was made by the Prussan Premier Goering
speaking recently at memorial meeting held in Essen in
honor of the police forces killed during the Ruhr disturb
ances in 192O-23
DO not imagine" declared Goering, shat Commu-
nsm has been completely destroyed The flame continues
to burn underground and would be madness for to
close eyes to the fact"
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
New Poem by LsngssOn
HughesPicked as Theme
for Mass Song Contest

NEW YORK .-"One More s. N
the q s. A." q poem written By the
revolutionary poet Langston
Hughes, on the occasion Of the
Eighth National Convention Of the
Communist Party, and published In
the Daily Worker on April 2, IS TO
be the subject Of contest for q
workers mass song. The competi-
tion Is sponsored by the Daily
Worker and the Workers Music
League.
Both organizations viii offer
prizes TO the winner of the compe-
tition, which is to be nation wide
Further details as to the rules Of
the competition will be published in
the revolutionary press.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
National Theatre Festival VIII
Open in Chicago Tomorrow

CHICAGO.-The National The
ater Festival will open on the eve
ming of April 18th and will continue
on the 14th and 18th at Turner Hall,
800 North Clark st. Fifteen work.
ers' theater groups. from all over
the country, will perform. The Rebel
Players of Los Angeles, the Ukrai-
MAN Dram Group of New York, and
Workers Theaters from Cleveland,
Toronto. Detroit and Gary will be
on the program. The New Jersey
The daily worker., 1934-04-12

School for Social
Research, 66 w
18th st.
Before coming
TO the D q il y
w orker the
speaker was a
staff writer on the
World = Telegram,
and prior to com
ing to New York
worked for fou,
years for the As
sociated Press
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
RAE MosHER.
On Film and Photo League Tickets

The Film and Photo League writes NJ Caeio revolutionary
and sincere group with high spirit of comradehp
unable the whole accepted readily
dollar for enrolment bothered
balance Another time was decided that the students the picture
Thunder Over Mexico protest
half OF US had no money; but rapidly and chey the
the other comrades asked by the school paid tickets
However the recent idea Of refusing admit film
code because he 25 cents short certainly
workers cultural to take
weak We know that
with the revolutionary the workers
considerations secondary.
Because love the of the Film
its work that sorry ugly incident should never
happen again"
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
Marguerite Young to
Speak on the Press in
New York Sunday Night

NEW YORK.-Marguerite Young of
the Daily Worker Washington Bu-
reau, will speak on Press Report
ing at Washington" on Sunday eve,
April Is, at 8 o'clock. at the New
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
Some Comments on 'The Average Mind"
BY MICHAEL GOLD

4 have been reading the Daily Worker for only short time and
very delighted with its ankness and wonderful devotion
to oppressed especially with your column which
with recness mpiy of style has always something inter
esing to say" writes C, r.
in the Of studies have become much convinced
entity the so-caIed average" mind
far from being pfuy mbecic is fondy pictured by
soal pg and hghbrows Indeed to honest observer
mdspud If crisis brought
bitter workers has rate excited their minds
pitch curiosity inquiry concerning the profoundest
questions seemingly sluggish surface of the oer mind
there energy that burst its bounds
rushing channels keen poemcs and earnest thought In proof
Of our squares.
closing earnest conviction that Communism
epoch rivaled for biance because only then
free they will certainly do justice to
the hidden their minds and personalities which otherwise
posing world
The daily worker., 1934-04-12

UAHIB u6aItt uNUB
This is Marguerite's Young's first
public appearance in New York
since her Washington assignment.
The meeting is arranged by the
Press League.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12

WABC-860 Kc.
TOO P.M.-Myrt and Msrge
7:f5-Just Plain Bill-Sketch
7:30-Serensders Orch
7.45-News-Boake Carter
-Rsffies-Sketch
s:30-Concert Orch; Alexander Gray
Baritone; Mary Eastman, Soprano
9:0o-Connie Gates, Claude Ries, Songs;
John Coriglisno, Violin
a.30--Waring Orch.
to:0O-Grsy orch. 5toopnagle and Budd
Comedians; Connie Boswell, Songs
10:So-Wheeler Orch; Doris Lorraine
Songs
10;45-Emery Deutsch, Violin
11:0o-Vera Van, Songs
i1:15-News Reports
il:20-Jones Orch.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
Dear Mike Gold:

Mike Gold
May column call your attention to many sad mis-
held
question of literature working people
and neectuals that number though they extend
their
in their literary tastes strongly welded
of the Indeed people that they
dislike proetaran writing read such because It
too much of popagandist character this
problem in your column time. p W.
Dear Comrade Gold
You probably realize rapidly the Theatre
has progressed in the last few months Every
and of having theatre library well equipped the
literature essential for the making politically artistcay dey
then the and we find that
financially unable to equip library
Therefore appeal to do what YOU can
pubcize the theatre drive for all literature theatrical POLITICAL
information needed the Workers
Laboratory Theatre ~ 18th St, York City
Conlradely yours,
ANNE GoLDFARB Chief Librarian
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
WHAT'S ON
ThHrsdnH

feAff eLdH
MOVIE and Lecture, Russia Old and
New in pictures, by Amy Jennings a. viii
kns Hall 100 wilkins Ave near Freeman
St, $50 pm. Auspices East Bronx Br.
FsU
LECTURE on youth Advances Under
the Soviets" at Met. Eden Br. F.SsU., H0l
Mscombs Road, cor. 170th 81. Prominent
speaker; $50 pm. Adm. iec.
DR. g. LEROY lectures on 'FsScism,
the ER,A. OF Planned Economy at Burn
side Manor, s5 W Burnside Ave, $3.50 Pm.
Auspices: Forham Br. E.SU, Adm. 10c,
Unemployed free.
DR.. LOUIS L. SCHWARTZ, member Of
Red Medicine" Investigating party, will
speak on Soviet Health Service at west
Side Br. F.s,U., 2s42 Broadway 1t 1ooth
ST., $50 pm. Adm. 15c.
| CORRIGAN Of M.wIU. speaks on 'Ex-
| periences and Struggles Of the Sesmen
at Edith Berkman Br. LID, 47o4 18th
| Ave, Brooklyn Borough Park Workers
/ Club, $50 pm.
MICHAEL HAGoPA Protest Meeting ct
| 4109 18th Ave, David Schriftmsp, LID.
attorney, main speaker, Auspices: Ella
May Br. LID. Adm. free.
! OPEN FORUM, Pen Il Hammer Club.
| ia ". 2lst st. Edward Amden speaks on
| Type Psychology and Capitalism" $50
pm.
SOVIET CHINA SUH-YAT- -SENISM in
the development Of the Chinese Revolution %
/ Friends Of the Chinese People. iss W 23rd
St., $40 pm. Admission 15c
THE TRACTOR Group VIII have spe-
cisl meeting at i22 Second Ave. top floor.
81 pm.
SEbfI-MONTHLY membership meeting Of
Nurses and Hospital Workers League, 80
E. 2oth ST., $50 pm. Interesting discus
sion.
Friday
DEBATE on Communism or Fascisr1 -
Max Bedacht, Communism; II. FIumaini.
Fsscism: irving Plaza. 18th St and irving
Place, pm. Auspices Br. 2 Lw.o. Ad-
mission 25c.
SYMPOSIUM Architecture and Social
Planning in United States" Up. GoodmanJ,
German tDr. ". Hegemann), Soviet Union
(simon Breinesl, Meyer Shapiro. Chair
man. Girls Industrial High School, Lex
ington Ave. and 22nd st., s.i5 pm Aus,
pices: Technical Bureau, F.SU. Adm 25c
DANCE and Entertainment at Finnish
Workers Hall, i15 W 1854 g. Music by
Jazz johnson Auspices Daily Worker
Comm. Finnish Club
BEN GOLD lectures at Coney Island
Workers Club, 2Tth ST. ard Mermaid Ave,
$50 pm
CARL SANDS speaks on Glass Music
With piano illustrations at Trsmons Pro-
yressive Club. sss 2. fremont Ave, s:ss
pm.
PROF. TREDwELL SMITH viii lecture
on The Danger Of War and the Youths
at the Brighton workers Center, s2ot
coney Island Ave, 9 pm. Auspices ct y.o.
L. and Brighton Shuie.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
Toscdnini To Offer All
Wagner Program .Sundau

Arturo Toscanini returns this
evening at Carnegie Hall, directing
The daily worker., 1934-04-12

WJL-(bO NC.
TOO P.M-Amos n Andy
T:15-Helen Jepson. Songs
7:30-Sag gerquist orch; Don Amechs and
Sally Ward in Dramatic Sketch
8:00-Grits and Grsvy-Hillbilly Sketch
s.30-Jack and Loretta Clemens. Songs
8:45-Rohert Simmons, Tenor, Sears
Orch
g:oO-Death Valley Days
9:s0-Duchin Orch.
10:00-Canadisn Program
10:30-America Must Choose Senator
John H. Bankhead Of Alabama, K. L
Hartman, President U. S. Chamber
Of Commerce
i1:0O-Cavaliers Quartet
1l:l5-News Reports
11;20-WLs Tenth Anniversary Program
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
TUNING IN
TONIGHT's PROGRAM
WEAF-66O Kc.

II.1U-DYfW FIIUsi ltNOt
WOR-710 Kc.
TOO PM-Sports Resume
7:15-Comedy; Music
7:30-Lone Ranger-Sketch
3:00-Little Symphony Orch, Phillip
James, Conductor; Thomas Richner,
Piano
9:00-Variety Musicale
9:I5-Dramatized News
9 9:30-Success-Harry Balkin
9:45-The Witch's Tale
10:15-Current Events
l0;30-Jolly Russians
II: -Moonbesms Trio
1i:31-Dancs Music
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09
SOciaIW Orkers
GroupWilIPut
H.R.B. on Trial
Participation Is Urged
With All Unemployed
Organizations

Delegated representatives of the
Home Relief Bureau Employees As
ISOLATION and organizations Of the
unemployed and relief workers
meeting st the Manhattan Indus
trial High School Wednesday night
laid plans for a public mass trial Of
the entire relief administration in
the city on Nov. "A.
The meeting Wednesday night,
called to plan city-wide protest ac-
tions against the firing Of Sidonia
Dawson, supervisory aide, who was
dismissed when she protested police
violence against members Of the
Unemployment Council in the Home
Relief Bureau, also planned a CITY,
wide picketing of sandwich -lnen"
carrying placards and distributing
leaflets exposing the dscrimina-
tons in the relief administration.
Organizations represented at the
conference formed provisional ar
rangementS committee and the en-
tire assemblage voted to invite all
trade unions, unemployed, civil lib
critics and social and relief workers
groups to participate in the mass
trial and other actions voted upon
The mass trial is intended prin-
cipally to bring to the attention Of
all workers groups the circurn-
stances surrounding the dismissal Of
Sidonia Dawson, an experienced So
cial worker. Dawson, an active
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09
10000 Rallies Marking 18th Anniversary of Sooiets

member Of the Home Relief Bureau
Employees Association, was chair
man Of the Grievance Committee in
Precinct 10 Of the Home Relief Blu
reau. When a committee from the
Unemployment Councils headed by
Barney Oster attempted to present
grievances and relief demands to
the supervisor, the members were
beaten and arrested by police sta
toned at the relief bureau.
On the following morning the
Grievance Committee Of the social
workers circulated a petition de-
handing the removal of the police
and the dismissal Of the supervisor,
II after investigation, 1t was found
that she was responsible for sum-
moning the police.
Shortly after, Dawson was sum-
moned to the Borough ONCE of the
Home Relief Bureau and fired for
activity inside and outside the re-
lief station" Commissioner of We'll
fare Hodson in letters to the press
has definitely stated that he ap-
proved Of the action Of the police
and the subsequent firing OF Daw-
son,