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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
AL Officials Threaten
To Revoke Charter
in Fight

NEW KENSINGTON. Pa, Oct. 10.
Rank and file members of the
Aluminium Workers Union, under
the leadership of the Committee
for Rank and File Control" have
brought so much pressure to bear
on Dave Williams, A. F. of L. or
ganizer, and Fsul Hewlett, presi-
dent of the local, that these Off
Gals are now being forced to satisfy
the demands of the group by grant
ing minor concessions in order to
head off the general sentiment
Hewlett has declared that he will
resign at the next meeting and ask
for the election of new executive
council. Heretofore the executive
council of seven has always been
appointed by the president.
Members Discuss Problems
But an executive council will by
no means solve the problem of re-
turning control of the union to the
rank and file, and The committee
is pressing for adoption of the
whole program as set forth 4 their
Save the Union" icaflet.
At the last three meetings this
program has been raised for discus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13

testing the blacklisting of Al miners
nearby Logans Ferry by U. M. w.
Of A. District S officials.
There these militan. miners were
custed by the district revoking the
charter of the U. M. w. of A local
while the coal operator weeded
them out. The resolution was
passed and sent to Pat Pagan, Dis
trict 5 presiden'
For Rank and File Control
The aluminium workers realize
that rank and file control is neces-
sary to conduct an effective fight
against Andrew Melons company
union-the Aluminium Workers
Protective Association-since union
leaders take no action against it
and The way for its growth is paved
by the company union agreement
under which Williams and Com
pany herded the men back to work
in the last strike.
"No Strike" Agreement
Hewlett has brought in a con-
signment of A. F. of L. literature,
pamphlets on trade unionism and
its policies, in which the workers
have themselves found many flaws.
One circular in particular, "Sugges-
ticns on the Making of Agree
rents, contains the following
gen1s: Tho position of - c'~~~d
chop under Section Ia of N. r. A.
is now the subject of coi1sl0 e1ayle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
hank and File Force New Elections in Union
ut Aluminium Workers Defeating Red Scare

sion by the membership, and the
frank examination of the short
colnings of present union leaders
and policies has so exsspera ed
Williams that he has threatened on
two different occasions to revoke
The locals A. T. of l.. charter"
Each discussion of the commit
tees program has brought new ele-
ments, who up un il now have been
deluded by the A. F. of L. leaders
empty phrases, to its support.
Red Scare Boomerang
Williams maneuvcr in raising the
red scare as an attempt to quash
rank and file sentiment has been
boomerang. His charge that the
program advanced in the leaflet is
the work of Communis has
evoked the response of members,
that no matter who wrote the pro-
gram it is one which upholds the
interests of the workers, and for
that reason they are for it.
Some of the workers, though
rot members of the Party, when
accused, have answered, "Sure l
an a Communist. If you got rid
Of all MS rank and filters whom
you call reds you would have
nothing left in yeur union
The threat to rei.cke the A. F.
OF L. charter of the local had lit lie
effect. So little, in fact. that ole
worker introduced resolution pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
Workers Are Militant
in Struggle Against
Mellon Monopoly

discussion and difference of opin-
ion, both in the Administration and
among employers. In an initial
agreement the closed shop is rarely
of primary Importance.
AN agreement is made upon the
theory that strikes and lockouts
will be unnecessary, and will be
avoided. An agreement usually
states that no strikes or lockouts
will take place during the life of
the sgreemen -"
Under model agreement in
the rear of this A. F. of L.-sellout
handbook are the following model
clauses:
During the life of this agree
ment no strike shall be caused or
sanctioned by the union" and
THE employer retains the right to
discharge any employe, but upon
request of the union, he agrees 10
show cause for such discharge"
The aluminium workers are plan
ming to send delegates to the A. F.
Of L. national rank and file con-
ference in National Slovak Hall,
Pittsburgh, on Oct. ~ and %.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13

ture. With these programs spread
ing like wildfire through the mines,
mills and factories, in the unions
and among the unemployed, the po-
lice have been able to arrest only
one worker, despite frantic efforts
to stop the leaflets.
Calling for "the absolute right of
all workers and citizens to vote,
without payment of poll tax, and
against all discrimination which
prevents Negroes from voting, hold
ing office and sitting on juries," the
Alabama platform contains eleven
demands, which will be coupled with
the national Communist platform
for the Congressional elections.
Abolish Wage Differential
Carrying on the day to day strug-
gle which Communists have been
leading in the unions, an important
demand is made for "the abolition
of the N. R. A. wage differential,
for higher wages in Alabama to
meet the higher cost of living, equal
with wages throughout the United
States" which will be put forward
together with the plank which de-
mands recognition of the labor
unions and the right of workers and
farmers to organize, strike and
picket. Against the use Of police
deputies or troops, or injunction
against strikers. For disarmament
of the K. K. K, White Legion and
other armed fascist bands"
AS the first demand, an emer-
gency session of the State Legisla-
ture is called for, to appropriate
SIS, 100000 for cash winter relief for
the unemployed, which will give SO
minimum weekly to families, with
out forced labor. Another demand
declares opposition to eviction of
unemployed workers and foreclos-
ures Of small home owners and
farmers.
Supporting the struggle of the
Sharecroppers Union, the Commu-
mist Party calls for the repeal of
the Bankhead Bill. cancellation of
back debts, reduction of rents and
for the right of troopers and ten
ants to gin and sell their own cot
ton, as we'll as for adequate farm
relief, which has now been COM
pletely cut off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
400 Furniture
Men Strike
In Los Angeles
Industrial Union Calls
General Strike in
New Orleans

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12.-Foul
hundred upholsterers went out Of
their shops Oct. to join the coast
wide strike in defiance both
of their bosses and of the reaction
airy leadership Of Thomas MAYHEM
and his little clique in the Inter
national "a. F. of L. Upholsterers'
Union.
Control Of the strike is in the
hands of the rank and file, who have
demanded and won the democratic
election Of strike committee. This
committee is composed Of rank and
file members of the A. F.. of L. To-
cal and Of the Furniture Workers
Industrial Union whose call for a
united front was instrumental in
encouraging the workers to join
the coast strike.
At the request Of the employers
a committee of workers was APP
pointed by the strike committee to
confer with employers on settle
ment terms, but the strike contin-
ues. No agreement will be accepted
until it is approved by a general
vote, and the workers are pledged
to stay out of the shops until this is
done,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
.JObless Rally
Backs Councils
inPhiladelphia

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct r.
City politicians here are support
ing an unprincipled group of relief
takers headed by David McNeal,
who hold daily meetings at Rey-
burn Plaza, at which place the Park
Commissioners have banned the
mass unemployed demonstration
called by the Unemployment Coun-
ellis for Saturday, Oct. 20, at 2 pm.
The group, which calls itself the
unemployed organization" seeks to
keep the iobless from organizing
into Unemployment Councils,
boosts the Roosevelt New Deal"
and the Democratic Party.
Wednesday for the first time. the
workers succeeded in their demands
that speakers from the Unemploy-
ment Councils be granted the plat
form. N. Wood, of the Councils,
started to outline the policies Of
the Unemployment Councils. but
was stopped by the police.
Leaflets announcing the Oct. 20
mass demonstration of the unem-
ployed are being distributed daily
at these meetings calling upon the
workers to smash the police ban on
the Unemployment Council demon
stration and to rally in thousands
next Saturday at which time ISra Ell
Amteg, national secretary of the
Councils and Communist candi-
date for governor Of New York
State, and other unemployed lead
ers will speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
Call for General Strike

NEW ORLEANS, La. Oct. l2.-
Under the leadership of the New
Orleans Local IL of the Nation-
al Furniture Workers Industrial
Union, general strike call has
been issued for Oct. IS, it was an
nounced by the national Office of
the union.
The strike, which is predicted to
be 100 per cent. will involve all re-
tail furniture shops and some i'm
portant factories where the union
has already succeeded in organiz-
ing a large number Of workers. The
demands worked out by the union
are as follows: u IS cents per
hour minimum for all skilled work
ers; q so cents per hour for all I'M
skilled workers; - 36-hour, five
day working week; A. Time and a
half for overtime double time for
Sundays and holidays; 81 Recogni-
ton Of the New Orleans local Of
the N.F.WLU.
Homer Brooks, district secretary
of the New orleans District of the
Trade Union Unity Council. adj
dressed the membership meeting of
the NFW1.U., pledging the full
support and the mobilization of all
local industrial unions in support of
the general strike Of the furniture
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
Stockton Communists
Break Through Terror

STOCKTON. Calf. Oct. IL. -
Breaking through the terror that
has obstructed the holding Of open
mass meetings by the Communist
P9rty for ten weeks. an election
rally was held recently in the au-
ditorium OF the Stockton Public
HIGH School.
In spite of the presence of police
who attempted to intimidate work
ers, large audience heard Pettis
Perry. Negro worker and COMMIT
mist nominee for lieutenant-gover-
nor and Archie Brown. young
worker and Communist candidate
for state treasurer.
The speakers exposed the vicious
absurdity of Upton Sinclair's EPIC,
pointed out what the Communist
program offered to youth, and made
a strong appeal for Negro and white
solidarity. Brown and Perry are
on a speaking tour of the state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
C.P.Candidates
Now on Slate
In AIab IN a

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Oct. IL
Certifying two white and two Ne
gro candidates at the State Depart
ment in Montgomery, the Commu-
mist Party in Alabama has def
initely entered the elections with a
revolutionary program, defying po-
lice attempts to outlaw them.
John M. Davis, militant black
smith and miner, of Birmingham,
who has been leading the rank and
file of the International Union of
Mine, Mill and Shelter Workers
in the red ore mine district, and
was recently expelled from his local
by the traitorous leaders whom he
fought heads the list as candidate
for governor.
Running with him Is Rance
Smith, Negro worker of the Ten
nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co.,
Tor Lieutenant Governor, who OPP
poses Thomas knight, vicious pros
ecutor of the ScottSboro boys and
Democratic nominee for this office
Andrew Forsman, leading trade
unloniSt in non-union Alabama for
40 years, and former president of
the Mobile Trades and Labor Coun-
Gil will run for Congressman from
the First District Mobile, while
Norman Ragland, Negro railroad
worker and T. c. I. coal miner fol
"A years is the Communist candi-
date for Congress in the Ninth Dis
trict birmingham.
Open State Campaign
/ The opening Of the state CAM
paign was marked by the distribu-
ton Of $4,000 leaflets, explaining
the Communist program in the cleo
lions, despite the new Birmingham
ordinance which makes illegal DOS
session OF more than one CODY of
any militant, working class litera-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
New Deal Aids Bankers Tie hten Control Over T. S. WeatE
NR.A. GiUeS aluminium Trust
Big Profits by Cutting Wages
Of Workers to 63 Cents q Day
N.R.A Revealed AS Ruling Class Weapon Against
Workers in Drive for Profits

New Deal" they showed a sharp
increase to a profit of $2,021 900 for
the first six months of this year.
Mr.. Mellon shared in these prof
its, probably much more than
these figures indicate.
But Mellon was able to wiring
these new profits from his workers
only because the Roosevelt New
Deal provided the following wages
to the aluminium workers:
Average wages Of So cents a day
for aluminium workers were re-
ported at n. r. A. hearings on the
aluminium industry, Oct. 10, 1888.
Aluminium workers at Melons
bauxite mines in Arkansas get a
maximum wage of % cents an
hour for a 40-hour week, giving
an average weekly pay envelope
of $50 cents.
Highly skilled aluminium work.
ers who were getting IS cents an
hour in 1929 now get, under
ROOseveits New Deal" IS to 40
cents, so per cent slash, which
explains why Mellon profits rose
during this period.
In the aluminium plants, particu-
larly in the bronze powder plants,
the workers get no protection
against the disease-breeding dust.
The N. R. A. code proposed by
Mellon provided for $10-a-week
wage for aluminium workers.
Roosevelt's New Deal" there
fore, is revealed only as program
which aids the biggest monopolies
in slashing costs of production at
the expense of the lives of the work.
ers. Roosevelt's New Deal" is the
class program of the Wall Street
ruling class. 1t is a program which
brings more hunger and suffering to
the working class.
A vote for Roosevelt's New Deal"
is vote for Mellon profits and SO
cents day wages. A vote for the
Communist Party is a vote against
the whole New Deal" capitalist
policy, for working-class policies,
for a program of class struggle
against the plumber of the Wall
Street ruling class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
ALL. ainter
Tells Of Farley
Against War
Protest Grows Against
Green's Anti "Red''
Edict in Chicago
DAILY worker Midwest Bureaul

tDdlN WORKER NtRFeSt buFeHul
CHICAGO, Oct 12.-In spite of
attempts by Fitzpatrick, president
of The Chicago Federation of La
Dor, to shut up the speaker, Elmer
johnson of Painters Local 637.
made stirring report Of the End
U. S. Congress Against War and
Fascism held here Sept, % to 30.
Emphasizing the strong trade
union representation in the Con-
gress, Johnson drove home en-
phatically the importance to labor
of the struggle against war and
fascism ard the need for united
action.
Answers Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick shouted, Delegate,
you are taking up the time of this
meeting. Please confine yourself to
the business of your organization.
This is the business of our Or
ganization." retorted Johnson. MY
local is calling a special meeting to
discuss it. There is nothing more
important for our unions than the
fight against war ana fascisln,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
Board Rejects
.CP Candidates
In Madison, Ill.

MADISON, ILL.,, Oct. 11-After a
six-hour hearing throughout which
the anti Communist preiudices of
officials and the witnesses they
called were flagrantly evident, the
County Board of Elections here re-
jected the nominating petition for
Communist candidates in Madison
County.
A mass meeting Of protest has
been organized and legal action will
be taken in a fight to reverse the
arbitrary ruling of the board.
One of the most violent opponents
of the Communist Party efforts to
qualify its candidates at the hear
ing was Roy B. Goodell, head Of
Federal Work Relief in Madison
County and former scab-herding
efficiency expert" in the Granite
City Stamping Works,
An incipient frame-up of Com
munist candidates on charges of
forgery was nipped in the bud by
the militant conduct at the hearing
of l. Jackson, Communist Negro
candidate for County Clerk.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
Children Press
Need for Free
School Lunch
To Send Big Delegation
to Cleveland Board
of Education

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 12-As
a part of the activities for Interna-
tional Children's Week. delegations
OF mothers and fathers are going
to the various public schools pre-
senting demands for free lunches
for children Of unemployed and
part time workers, for free school
supplies and for warm clothes and
good shoes for the children who
need them.
The Young Pioneers of America
in the scovill neighborhood, the
Negro territory, organized a demon
stration Of children and parents at
the home of Mary Martin, a Negro
member Of the Cleveland Board of
Education. A delegation went in
side to see Mary Martin to demand
that she support the demands for
free hot lunches for school chill
dren The delegation reported on
the miserable conditions OF the
children in this territory where the
children do not get milk and other
fooos which they need, where chill
dren are forced to stay home from
school because they have no shoes
or clothes to wear. Mary Martin
was forced to agree that these con-
ditions existed and promised that
she would do what she could in
order to see that the children got
hot lunches. etc.
A mass delegation will be sent
to the Board Of Education meeting
Monday, Oct. % at 4 pm. All mass
organizations have beer called upon
to support this delegation, The
delegation will meet to discuss the
plans on Friday evening. Oct. 10 at
the Workers Bookstore basement,
1922 Prospect Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13

draw the big trusts even still closer
to the government, not with gov
eminent supervision over the big
corporations, but with greater con-
troll Of the big corporations over
the government, and the very
bodies set up to deal with them.
That is the inevitable trend of
capitalism.
Revolutionary Way Out
Only the Communist Party offers
a way out of this strange hold con-
troll Of the wealth of the country by
the powerful trusts. In its election
program the Communist Party calls
for an intensihcation of the imme-
date struggle to wrest the profits
from the bosses by means of in
creased wages. lower hours. in
creased organization Of the trade
unions, unemployment insurance.
But the Communist Party goes
further. It points out that the grip
over the country's wealth by these
f1nanciers. this small group of cap
italistS, can only be broken by the
revolutionary overthrow Of capital
ism, by the establishment Of Soviet
power, the rule of the workers. Ev-
cry struggle for increased wages,
for improvement of conditions I'M
der the present state of the capital
ist crisis strengthens and leads the
workers to the higher and greater
tasks of the ending of the death
grip Of the capitalists over the pro-
ductive forces Of the nation.
The Communist Party candidates
are struggling for Soviet power, for
Socialism. Every act of a Commu-
mist candidate speeds the fight for
the workers state which would at
one stroke break the grip of the
f1nanciers. The Soviet state, with
the majority Of the workers behind
it. would take control Of the huge
corporations, Of the banks, and
transform them into the property
Of all the workers. The very con-
centration Of the wealth in these
gigantic corporations, the fact that
the leading industries are now in
their hands, makes this task easier
and more necessary.
A continuation of this death grip
means greater starvation. means
increased development towards fas-
cism, in the efforts Of the bankers
to retain their power. Only a revo-
lutionary struggle which in one
powerful stroke of the workers
breaks the domination Of this pow
erful group Of the bankers, aided
by the capitalist government, can
solve the problem Of the present
crisis.
Roosevelt knows that this is a
major question confronting the toll
ing masses of the United States
and that is why he talks about
distribution of wealth" At tbs
same time, he does everything ir
his power to strengthen the grip
of the bankers and industrialistS
He does it through the A.AA., the
NRA., and through every measure
of the New Deal, which have al
ready driven up the profits of these
very fnanciers.
A vote for the Communist Party
is vote for the revolutionary
struggle, for Soviet power, which
will transform this wealth into So
cial property and speed the devel-
opment of Socialism in the United
states.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
Negro Engineer, Pupil
of Steinmetz, Heads
Soviet Metal Plant

MAGNITOGoRSK, U.s.s.R. CFP)
Oct. 12.-The chief electrical engi-
neer at the Magnitogorsk Metal
Working Plant is Richard Williams,
a young Negro pupil Of the cleo
trical wizard Steinmetz and gradu-
ate in electrical engineering at Co
lumbia University. Williams comes
from Old Greenwich, Conn.
At his present post he is in charge
Of $50 electrical and technical engi-
neers of many nationalities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
French Imperialism
Increases Arms Plants

PRAGUE, Oct, 1.-THE number
OF far-flung ammunition factories
built and supervised by French i'm
perialism throughout the Balkans is
to be increased in Rumania, from
reports received here.
The Czechosloyakian arms factory
in Brunn-French oWned-con-
GUIDED an agreement with Rumania,
according to which munitions fac
tory is to be erected in the vicinity
OF Bucharest and a machine build
ing works at Gugyr.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
Only C. p. Shows
Way to End Rule
Of the Big Trusts
Bankers DR. ain Wealth from All Sources in
the United States-AlI Riches and Resources
Held Under Their Domination
By Harry Cannes

More equitable distribution of wealth is pet phrase
of President Roosevelt and in the present elections is being
peddled out literally to the masses.
Yet the latest revelations of the Senate Banking and
Currency Committee show that the big bankers particularly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
VigiLante Plot Barred
To KWDOrOtEly Ray
Hancock, on Release
Hangman's Moose, Knout and Open Grave Figure
in Threats of California Bosses; Hancock's
Mother in Desperate Appeal
BY Cyril Briggs

hangmans moose and steel studded knout, open
grave bearing the of living and identif-
cation visit by Vgilante two imprisoned lettuce strike
leaders among the gruesome factors in sinister
spracy by California to torture and murder 19year
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13

Many workers have set them
selves quota of 81 week for the
Daily" 100000 drive. How much
are you giving? Pennies. dimes.
nuarters-5end as much as you can!
The Daily Worker depends upon
you,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
BY MILTON HOWARD

1 ne gOlQen prOIlJS OF Cne hOOSe-
welt New Deal rain down with
impartial bounty upon Democratic
and Republican capitalists alike.
Moley finds reason for thanks
giving in the astonishing rise i'll
profits which the Roosevelt New
Deal" has accomplished in the past
IL months Moley thinks that in
these profit harvests is the reason
for the American working class vot-
ing in a new Democratic Congress
which will continue Roosevelt'S pol
icies.
Andrew Melons gigantic alum
mum monopoly has profited enor-
mously from the New Deal" de-
spite the incidental fact that Mel
Ion does not happen to be part of
Roosevelt's political party. Mellon
is one of the country's most power
full capitalists. And that is enough
to make him a beneficiary of the
Roosevelt policies.
For the fact is that ROOseveIt's
policies are capitalist policies, di-
rected solely to finding ways Of
guaranteeing and increasing the
profits of the biggest capitalist
monopolies by driving down the
wage scales and living standards of
the American workers.
AS proof Of the success of the
Roosevelt New Deal" Moley lists
the following profits in the nom
ferrous metal industry:
In 1888 the non-ferrous metal
companies showed a deficit of
S3,154,000 during the first six
months. Thanks to the Roosevelt