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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
ALL Official Has No
Objection to Co.
Union atBudd Plant
Compliance Board Bluff
Workers Along ON
Protests

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25-Because
Budd Auto workers who were driven
back to work by the National Labor
Board are vigorously protesting
against the company union foisted on
them, the MIRA. officials here are
trying to find means Of getting rid
of the case.
Federal investigators were sent to
the Budd auto body plant in Phila-
delphia to give the appearance of
action" Similar investigators were
sent to the Weirton Steel Co. in
Ohio and West Virginia when $4,000
strikers were driven back by the Ma
tional Labor Board. President RooSe-
welt and Senator Wagner said they
would act. The matter was referred
to the Department Of Justice and
buried.
William H. Davis, chairman Of the
compliance board proposed an cleo
ton of the workers. Edward G,
Budd, owner Of the plant, said an
election" was already held and the
company union is functioning.
Lewis G.. Hines, A. F. Of L. repre-
sentative said he is willing TO COM
promise; to allow the company union
to exist, If the boss will deal with
the A. F. of L. leaders.
1--WE have no objection TO the
two unions existing side by side,"
said Hines.
In all strikes broken by the Ma
tional Labor Board, the same pro-
cedure is followed. Everything is
done to drive the strikers back to
work. When the strike Is broken
with promises to the workers, the
boss refuses to carry out his prom
ises. The matter then comes before
the compliance board, where it is
dragged out, and the protesting
workers are fired. The A. F. of l..
steps in and helps the company
union to entrench itself, in this in
stance actually offering mo objec-
tons" to the company union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Lay-Offs of Thousands of CWA
Workers Continue As Result
Of Roosevelt's Firing Orders
Detroit, Cleveland an d
Pittsburgh Are
Hard Hit
DEMAND C.W.A. JOBS
Ohio Cities Report Mass
Firing; Fired Men
Fight

DETROIT, Jan. 25.-SeveuI
thousand C. w. A. workers
were laid off in Wayne County
yesterday, 300 of them in the
city of Detroit. Eight thou
sand more will be laid off
from county C. w. A. jobs be-
fore the end Of the week, public
works commissioner Laurance G.
Lenhardt said, 'if further material
expenditures are not authorized"
Further material buying was dis
continued last week.
Several Thousand In Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 25-Sev-
eral thousand men are being laid
off in Allegheny County, as a result
Of President Rooseyelt's "curtail-
ment" Of the G. w. A. program. a
letter Of protest sent by the county
commissioners to Roosevelt declares.
3,2OO in Toledo
NC1%HOOs OAA4Of Udlls 20. - IE1leG
thousand two hundred C. W. A.
workers have already been laid of
here, and will be laid of at the
rate of 1880 every two weeks, Col
John Shelter, C. w A. administrator
announced.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. 25.-In
the past few days 5000 C.WA. work
ers here have been fired as the result
| Of RooseYelt's abandonment of the
C.W.A. program. In recent an
nouncements to the press, J. E..
Stuart, county C.w.A. administrator.
has stated that by April all C.W.A.
workers here will be fired.
At the same time, the thousands Of
workers who have regularly come to
the C.W.A. offices for Jobs find that
the relief lists have been closed fol-
all those registered for C.W.A. Jobs
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Rainey Says
Japan -USSR
W ar Is Close
, House Speaker Urges Big
J Navy ''To Keep Out
of Coming War;
ASKS IO2 MORE SHIPS
10 Rush VinsOn Navy Bill
Through at Once
(See more war news on page
six today
By MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, Jan. rs
Henry 7. Rainey, speaker Of
the House Of Representatives,
asserted today in an interview
With this and one other correspond
emit: ct looks awfully bad in the Far
East. We may have trouble in the
spring between Russia and Japan.
This virtually fiat prediction of war
was Rainey's explanation of his en-
dorsing and rushing through the
House the Vinson naval building
program for gigantic enlargement Of
me United States feet.
1.-THE best way for us to keep out
of it," Rainey added, referring to
war, "is to build up our feet to treaty
limits"
The decla-a ration came on the heels
of action by the Rules Committee of
the House, traditional dynamo of the
political machine in power, giving
the Vinson bill the right Of way on
the calendar This will bring it up
for consideration tomorrow or next
Tuesday, or as soon as the subject
now under discussion is concluded
Looks Bad in Far East"
Rainey made his statement when
consulted about a rllnor that he had
privately said that in his opinion the
United States might be drawn into
war this spring. Asked what he would
say about the report that he con-
sidered war imminent, he replied:
You tell them that I say it looks
awfully bad in the Far East. We may
have trouble in the spring between
Russia and Japan"
Asked whether he thought, then,
that ths United States would go in
on the side Of the Soviet Union, he
said: II don't think we will get in it
if We build up the Navy. The best
way for us to keep out of it is to
build our fleet up to treaty limits.
Then they are not so likely to attack
us. In that way We'll keep out of IT.
We're way below treaty strength now
(Coqlti1,ued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Chicago Sets Pace in ''Daily"
DriUe; Sends in POS New Subs
Quick Action by Section in Circulation Campaign
Revolutionary Challenge to All Districts

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. 25-Section
No. S, Communist Party of this Dis
trict, records a splendid start in the
Daily Worker circulation campaign
by securing 205 new subscribers to
the Saturday edition at a mass meet
ing held by this section.
The members Of Section No. 8 are
at the same time planning to can
vass intensively their territory for
additional subscriptions. They will
also canvass the workers who sub
Scribed to the Saturday edition to
persuade them to subscribe to the
daily edition as well.
Section No. 5 issues a revolutionary
challenge to the other sections in
District No. and to sections ir dis
tricts throughout the country to
equal or beat its first achievement in
the drive for 10000 new daily sub.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Welfare Island Scandal Raises
Lid on ViLe Jail Brutdlities
Daily Worker Was First To Expose Conditions
in Prisons in 1927, 1880 and 1888

leased from Welfare and Harris
Island for leading the March 6, 1880,
unemployed demonstration in New
York.
New facts Of prison brutality were
again revealed as recently as last
summer. when John L. Spivak,
special Daily Worker reporter, wrote
a series of articles based on the
sworn affidavit of Mark Shahian, an
ex-serviceman, who had personally
witnessed the brutal attack and muir
der of James Matthew'S a Negro
prisoner.
Seeks to Conceal Wage Cuts
The spectacular nature Of this
latest and much publfciSed move by
LaGuardia was seen by the Commu-
mist Party here yesterday as the first
Of a series of stunts planned by the
IaGuardia administration to divert
attention from its wage-cutting pol
lev and from its open subServience
to Wall Street banking interests.
Charles Krtmbein, New York Dis
trict Organizer Of the Communist
Party, in commenting on the prison
raid, said:
"This action will In no way
change-nor is ii meant TO change
the nature of the whole brutal
and vicious penal system in New
York. What LaGuardia is doing is
substituting his own political
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Sc0ttsbOrO Protest
Demonstration This
Saturday in Harlem

NEW YORK-A demonstration
) protest against the brutal prison
creatment of the Scottsboro boys
and to demand their immediate
release is called for this Saturday,
Jan. 81, at 2 p. m. by the Harlem
Section Of the international Labor
Defense.
The demonstration will begin
with a parade from 131st Street
and Lenox Avenue. White work
ers are especially urged to turn
out en- masse in a mighty mani
festation of working-cla soli-
darity with the oppressed Negro
masses. Organizations should at
tend with their banners and
slogans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Mass Protest Wins
Prompt Relief For
JOblesS in Pitts.
d elegates Elected To
Feb. 3 Unemployed
Convention

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 25.-Daily
mass delegations to home relief and
welfare offices have been the answer
Of the Unemployed Councils here to
/ the ruling of the County Relief Board
that only committees Of five would
be recognized. The Relief Board has
been forced to accept the proposals
made by the County Unemployed
Council through this mass pressure.
Battles in three relief stations,
arrests in one, police attacks in
many more followed the Relief Board
ruling. One mass delegation of fifty
workers from only one block, on its
own initiative, marched into Mayor
NIcNair's office to demand the re-
lease Of arrested workers. Mills, di-
rector of county relief, claimed that
the Unemployed Councils had con-
sumed more than 375 hours OF his
supervisors time last month not
including the time spent in his office.
At the county committee meeting
of the Unemployed Councils on
Saturday, more than 200 delegates
and so visitors were present be-
cause of the struggles which had
taken place the preceding week.
A Victory for Councils
After a two-hour discussion on the
county relief ruling, it was decided,
temporarily and from an experimental
standpoint, to approve welfare COM
mittees Of five to negotiate with
the supervisors and that emergency
clients accompany the committee,
but if grievances are not immme-
diately handled, the Unemployed
Council local shall march down in
a body to handle the grievances.
Monthly meetings with the county
relief and weekly meetings with
Mills were approved, but the position
was emphasized that emergency
orders for food, medical attention,
Continued on Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
ALL. Heads, Cangsters,
Politicians on Trial for
Chicago Racketeering

CHICAGO.-Eighteen gangsters, in
~luding Al Capone, were named in a
suit here which will reveal the close
connection between business men,
politicians, gangsters and American
Federation of Labor union officials
The state will attempt to show that
this conspiracy was formed at the ex-
pense of legitimate business enter
prises. Bombings, acid throwing, and
terroristic methods are charged, but
the workers bore the brunt of the at
tack both from the union offic!sls
end from gssaltins nsss gIssss *
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Steel Workers
Strike W hen
Leader Is Fired
H'dware Foundry Work
ers Demand Wage Rise
From Bosses

BUFFALO, N. Y, Jan, % - The
workers of the Atlas Steel Foundry
in the Black Rock section of Buffalo
went on strike, Jan. %, protesting
against the discharge Of John ziack,
chop committeeman Of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union. AS
a result of the previous strike, con-
Quoted in the late fall, the company
had agreed to recognize the shop
committee of the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union.
Two weeks ago the management of
the Atlas Steel Foundry handed a let
ter to each employee with proposal
for a company representative plan,
thereby denying recognition Of the
shop committee These proposals
were fatty rejected by the men.
The following are the demands
agreed upon by the men at the local
meeting Tuesday, Jan. 23rd, unam-
mously:
1. The reinstatement Of committee
man John ziack.
2. Abolition Of the Company
Representative Plan Company Union
scheme).
8. No discrimination on the job.
The men denounced the MIRA. ac-
tivities in its past betrayals, citing
the cases of Weirton, Republic Steel,
Buffalo, Arnbridge, etc.
The shop is out solidly involving
some 10 men under the leadership OF
the Steel and Metal Workers Indus
trial Union, with elected strike COM
mittee and picketing at the plant.
Present Wage Demands
BUFFALO, N. Y, Jan. %. - The
North Buffalo Hardware Foundry
Local 81, presented demands for a
wage-increaSe for moulders at the
rate of IS cents per hour minimum
to the management on Tuesday.
The shop committee also demanded
that the men working on the so-called
merit system" in the plant be paid
for the full amount of work put out
abolishing the system Of paying them
So or SO a day on a piece work basis
for the fourth or fifth day when they
made S. for the first three days. This
automatically cancelled the rate made
on piece work of S. day
The management of the North Buf
falo hardware Foundry agreed to tht
abolition of the merit system with TIT
minimum rates and guaranteed that
within two weeks the wage increase
would be considered. This actor
came as a result of the activities Of
the Ship committee Of the Steel anc
Metal Workers Industrial Union, rec
ognized by the company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26

scribers and for 10000 new readers
Of the Saturday edition Of the
Daily"
The rapidity with which the 205
Saturday subscriptions were secured
shows how ready workers are to be-
come readers of our Daily Worker if
they are approached and asked to
subscribe.
The Chicago District expects TO
surpass its quota of 500 new daily
and 1000 new Saturday subscribers.
This District will do its utmost to
capture the National Daily Worker
banner which will be awarded to the
district first to achieve its quota in
the Daily Worker circulation drive.
Section No. 5 asks all other Sec
lions to reply to its revolutionary
challenge through the columns Of
our Daily WORKER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
UNIV Rank &
File Fights for
Right to Strike
Paul BOhus Takes Floor
Against Lewis Machine
i'm Convention
BY DAN DAVIS

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 20
The steam-rolling of the U.MW.A
Convention by the officialdom of the
union continued the third day
tabling or killing all resolutions, &C.
cording to the orders of John L
Lewis, International President,
The high light of the afternoon
session wednesday was the discus
sion on resolution presented by
the New Salem, Pa, local, reading
in part:
whereas, Governors Of some
States have succeeded in getting
an industrial court order passed,
and
Whereas, said law prohibits the
use of strike as weapon of de-
Tense against the aggression of
the capitalists or for the better
ment of the workers Of said
States,
Therefore, be it resolved that
the U.M.W.A. supports any and all
justified strikes under the juris-
diction Of the U.M.W.A. In said
states and fights to the bitter end
for the repeal of said law and
for restoration to the workers of
such States as their inherent
right, the right to strike"
Defends Resolution
While this resolution does not in
itself face squarely the issue of the
right to strike as affected by the
N.R.A. and the U.M.W.A. agree
mentS, resolution fully taking uL
this issue was introduced by another
local. Nevertheless, Paul Bonus OF
Ohio, young militant miner who is
coming forward at the convention
as leader of the opposition dele
gates, took the floor in defense OF
this resolution, making q strong
plea for the traditional right tc
strike. He received so great a re-
Spouse from the delegates, that the
Lewis henchmen, in panic, at once
put forward some of its leading ma
chine men in an effort to block
the passage of the resolution.
Pacef1co, one of the international
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Read the Racketeer
Exposure on Page )

Today's installment exposing
graft and gangsterism in the
Painters Brotherhood will be found
on Page 3. Articles on rackets
practised on workers by officials of
the American Federation of Labor,
electrical, longshoremen, and car
penters' unions will follow. Work
ers are urged to send in their ex-
periences with their grating OFF,
Gals. Workers living in New York
should come to the offices of the
Daily Worker, so e. 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26

BERLIN, Jan. 25-The Nazi Reichs-
tag, composed of deputies who have
no power except to vote yes to any
proposal Hitler puts before them, has
suddenly been called to meet next
Tuesday. That day will be the first
anniversary OF Hitler's coming to
power.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
In the Daily Worker
To-day

To-day
Page 2
Sports, by 81 GerSon.
Waldorf Strike.
Workers Welcome Foster.
Page
Painters Union Heads Graft
S100-G00 to Organize Gang
sters." SO ,ssssarHY
Trade Union News.
Page
Letters from Transports Workers.
Party Life"
Or. Luttfnger Advises.
TN the Home"
Page S
Change the World.n by Michael
Gold.
1.-TWO Ships" by an American
Sailor.
Stage and Screen; Tuning In;
What's On
Page 6.
Editorials, ''The Party Organise
tions Must Lead" "Anti- Soviet
Poison of The Nation .; Their
Secret Conference; another
Lynching."
Troyanovsly Tells of Soviet
Gains.
Foreign News.
Cartoon, by Burck.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Cell United Front
Conference of CWA
NesU York Workers

NEW YORK.-The Relief Work
ers League of Greater New York
has issued call for an emer-
gency conference for united action
against Wage cuts and wholesale
lay-offs on c. W. A. jobs.
The conference, to be held ct
the Furniture Workers Hall, si2
Broadway, at p. M. on Sun, Jan.
IS,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26

20-year-old Negro youth, arrested
after a fight with Alex johnson, a
white miner, was taken out Of the
Perry County jail by masked band
Of 80 white lynchers and lynched last
night.
SCOTS body riddled with bullets,
was found dangling from tree in
the Cornett Hill graveyard adjoin-
ing Knott County about an hour after
the prison authorities had delivered
him over to the lynch gang.
Local newspaper reports Of the
crime agree that w. G. Knuckles,
deputy warden of the jail, led the
lynchers into the jail, ana subse-
quently turned over the key to Scott
cell to them. Warden Troy B.
Combs admitted the lynch band. The
defense of the two jailers, in the
event that there is even a gesture OF
official investigation Of the crime, is
already indicated. Knuckles will
argue that he was outside the jail
when the lynch gang gathered at its
door, and that he was on his way to
aid Warden Combs in defending
Scott. when members of the gang
poked their guns into his back as
Combs opened the gate for him.
Combs will argue that the lynchers
forced themselves through the gate
behind Knuckles before he was able
to close the gate.
Perry County authorities are max
ing the usual promise Of sweeping
investigation, such as those now
dragging on or already abandoned If
several states where recent lynching:
have occurred.
(See Editorial on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Negro Youth Is
Taken Out OF
Jail; Lynched
Kentucky Jailers Hand
Victim Over to
Masked Band

BULLETIN
FRANKFORT, KY, Jan. 2s.-The
Kentucky House Of Representatives
today adopted a resolution pledg-
ing support to Gov. Ruby Laffoon
in "any steps he may take" TO
punish the lynchers Of Rex Scott,
Negro youth. The Legislature it.
self took no step against lynching.
Notified of the adoption OF the res
Olution, the governor said he con-
templated no immediate steps.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Farmer Labor Local
Elects Delegate to
JObleSS Convention
Hold Mass Send-ofs for
d ele g ates to
Washington

EVELETH, MINI, Jan. Is. - A
member was elected by the Eyeleth
local Of the Farmer Labor Party as
their delegate to the National Con-
vcntion Against Unemployment to be
held in Washington.
The proposal was brought up by
rank and file member at the reg
ular meeting of the local, and after
some discussion was unanimously
elected. The delegate wall leave for
Washington with the Minnesota
delegation.
Wilkes-Barre Meet
WILKES BARRE, Pa. - A mass
cend-off meeting will be held here
at the Workers Center, 1926 East
Market ST., on Thursday, Feb. l, at
7:30 p. M, for the delegates to the
National Convention Against Unem-
ployment. All workers are invited
tn attend.
Fort Worth Send-Off Meet
FORT WORTH, Tex. - A mass
sand-off meeting will be held here
IN Saturday, Jan. 9th, for the
Texas delegation to the National
Convention Against Unemployment.
The delegation will leave for Wash
ington on Monday, Jan. Goth, and
arrive in Washington on Feb. End,
Jamaica Send-Off Party
JAMAICA, L. IA send-of party
for the local delegates to the Ma
tional Convention Against Unem-
ployment will be held at the Work
ers Center here at 1922 Liberty
Ave, on Sunday, Jan. %, at 8 p. m.
All workers are invited to attend.
New York Mass Send-Off
NEW YORK. - A mass send-off
meeting in which delegates from all
Continued on Page p
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REICHsTAG CALLED

Continued on Page q
The Washington times., 1934-10-25
C9RwM;S C91aHYxTS
On the Boards Today; If They Flop, Parker
Dizzy, Daffy and Dan Must Go To Houston
They'd Better Be o. X. For Further Seasoning
By BILL CoRUM

} Yankees right here in New
York City. The fans got fed UP
with winning. For the Cardi.
mails to have a good team and
be right there, or around there,
in the pennant race became the
rule instead of the exception.
Detroit Is Example
It is unfortunate but true that
to make the fans truly enthuS-
iastic about a ball team they
must be starved for a time. De-
troit was an excellent example.
Brooklyn is another. They'll
batter down the gates at EbbetS
Field the first year somebody
comes up with a winner. The
same is true in Boston. They
are pennant hungry and beg.
ging to be fed
Now I don't know what ex.
actly can be done about the st.
Louis situation. Likely it will
improve next year for two rea.
sons. No, three. The two
Deans and better times. They
have the best ball team to look
at that the game has produced
in a long time.
But some members of the
chain gang. the coffee and
cakes system" at which rival
players scott, owe their oppor-
tunitieS to the ceaseleSS hunt of
hickey and his aides for talent.
The other clubs may say that
they would go out and dig these
boys up, but the answer is that
they do not. If they did, they'd
have a surplus of good material
every year just as the Cardinals
have,
Just figure out for yourself if
they hadn't sold Pitcher Lee, to
the Cubs, and Ostermuller, to
the Red Sox, last year how they
would have shaped up in the
National League.
Good Business Men
Nor are Breadon and Hickey
the type of men not to pay their
players as we'll as they can af-
ford to pay them within the
limits Of good business. That
would be bad business and
whatever else Sam and Branch
are, their worst C4lemy never &C.
cused them of being bad bust.
ness men.
It is unfortunate, of course,
that they haven't the resources
of a Rupert, a Wrigley. or a
Yawkey. But it also is unfor-
tuante, and much more peril.
nent to me at the moment,
that you and I haven't such re.
sources, either.