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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
Merging of All Marine Unions Urged Defeat Agreement

To all International district and local bodies of the
international Seamens Union,
Brothers:
The terms of the proposed agreement have not
met with the approval Of the East and Gulf seamen
Protests against the agreement have also come
from the Pacific seamen, who realize that its en-
forcement in the East would certainly be followed
by efforts to put across similar one on the West
Coast.
While this agreement undoubtedly contains
few important concessions, it by no means meets
the demands for SIS wage scale; for overtime
pay; for increased manning scales and improved
working conditions; for the abolition of the fink
halls and shipping sharks and control of hiring by
the workers; which we're the principal demands put
forward by all unions and which received the
dorsenent of all seamen organized and morgan
lied.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28

AN important step, vital to the interests of all
- American seamen was made yesterday when the
National Bureau of the Marine Workers Industrial
Union proposed united front of all unions in the
industry to defeat the unsatisfactory agreement
reached by the negotiations committee Of the In
ternational Seamens Union and the American
Steamship Owners Association
In letter addressed to the I. 8. q. and all its
district and local bodies, the content of which will
be simultaneously distributed in leafet form to the
seamen in all ports, the M w. 7. U. proposes the
merger Of all seamen's unions into one powerful
union in the industry that would guarantee rank
and file control and full trade union democracy,
and based on program of struggle against the
shipowners.
Such action, the union said would put the
American seamen in strong position TO defeat the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
u HI II e S e
Red Army
Wins Battle

HONGKONG. Dec. 27.-Marching
VIGOROUSLY through KweichoW
province, the Red Army of China
today threatened Kweiyang, prov
incial capital. Kuomintang forces
admit that the capital will fall at
any moment into the hands of the
Red Army, if it has not already
been captured.
The leading cities in the path of
the capitals, such as Swangping,
Shipping and Changan to the north
and east are already flying the red
flag with the hammer and sickle Of
the Chinese Soviets.
In it's march to Szechuan prov
ince, after defeating Chang Kali
shek's efforts to encircle and crush
the Soviets, the Red Army is max
ing tremendous Roadway in Kwei-
chow province, having already taken
greater amounts of territory then
that which fell into Chang Kali
shek's hands in Kiangsi province
Fearful of the rapid progress Of
the Chinese Soviets and Red Army
in many provinces throughout
Chisna, Chang Kai-shek has an
swered the frantic appeal Of the
provincial war lords for troops. At
the same time he has promised
them a subsidy of 100000 month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28

agreement and improve the working conditions in
the industry. The complete organization OF all
seamen into one union will be an important step
toward the eventual unification of the seamen
and the longshoremen into one strong industrial
union, the statement declared.
1t has been reported that the enforcement Of
the agreement on the Atlantic Coast is expected by
Jan. /. The introduction Of the same or a similar
agreement on the Pacific Coast will follow II 1t is
successfully put across in the East
After adoption of the proposal by the National
Bureau with representatives of the most important
Atlantic ports present, it unanimously approved
by the membership meeting of the seamen of the
New York port, at their meeting Wednesday night
at the headquarters of the union 140 Broad Street
The letter follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
JOBLESS RISE
10 IN MONTH
Green Admits the Sixth
Successive Increase
in Unemployment
By Seymour Waldman
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 81
Unemployment during November,
1884, increased for the sixth sue
cessive New Deal month, to H.
100000, as compared with 100000
for the corresponding month of last
year, a jump of 429 900, William
Green, President of the American
Federation Of Labor, admitted to-
night in his regular monthly I'M
employment report. A. F. of L.
Trade Union Reports" he pointed
out, Showed that one per cent of
the membership lost their jobs in
November and three per cent more
were laid off in the first part of
December" Although Green's
figures throughout are an underesti-
nation of the total number unem-
ployed by several millions, they
show the downward trend in jobs.
"a large part Of the unemployed, /"
said Green, have been without
regular work for one or two years
or even more" and relief need has
increased rapidly" Citing the in
crease in the relief rolls but char
acteristically falling to report or at
tack the scaling down of relief or
the recent Notwithstanding bust
ness wage-cutting drive in work re-
lief and other projects, Green
states: September figures show
100000 more families, or 100000
more individuals, on relief rolls
than in September last year and
reports from las cities show three
per cent more on relief rolls in
October than September and two
per cent more in November than
october and relief payments higher
by 10 per cent and eight per cent
respectively in those two months. "
striking Decline" in Jobs
Green's announcement reported
an unemployment increase of
some 100000 farm laborers who
had work last year." These figures
(November) he said, "show strik-
ing decline of employment on
farms due largely to the drought.
Unemployment during the year in
creased also, he added, "in con-
struction and on the railroads,
while manufacturing, coal mines
and wholesale and retail stores
showed Slight gains"
Tries to Soften Figures
Despite the fact that he sought
to soften the effect of his cold
arithmetical figures by describing
the continuing unemployment in
crease as unusual at this season.
and as due largely to the normal
increase in population, which yearly
adds more than 100000 to the army
of job seekers" Green declared that
the relief figures point to the in
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28

That is what war is for"
I had just asked him what he
thought Of RooSevelt's recently pro-
fessed desire to take the profits
out of war"
The keeness of the answer and
its simplicity are typical. We chat
ted for almost an hour on the vari-
GUS political developments of the
moment.
Strachey will speak tonight at
Mecca Temple, 55th Street, between
Sixth and Seventh AYES, under the
auspices of the New York City Com
mittee of the American League
Against War and Fascism.
With a well trained, inquiring
and honest mind, this young Eng
lish intellectual who passed through
all the schools of ruling class ideol-
ogy, who was bred in the best that
bourgeois life can offer, is now an
energetic fighter against capitalism
and its two monsters, war and fas-
cism.
ut is fairy obvious, I should say"
he continued, chat the New Deal
is giving birth 20 increasingly fas-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
TRIAL OF | 8
TO OPEN SOON
Vigilantes, Red Squad
and Stool ig cons
Attack Communism
BY Jack Crane

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Dec. 81
Stool pigeons, vigilantes, American
Legion leaders and the heads of
various police "red squads" brought
here by California bosses for TIE
trial of the eighteen workers charg-
ed with violating the California
Criminal Syndicalism Law, are
openly boasting that "the Commu-
mist Party is on trial" and are max
ing no attempt to conceal their hope
and belief that the trial of the 10
defendants will serve as q signal for
a nationwide sharpening Of the
p1 esent attacks against the working
class.
The same opinion is openly ex-
pressed by District Attorney Meal
lister in such questions to proSpec-
tive jurors as do you realize the
Communist Party is virtually on
trial in this case" and his further
statement, IF we prove that the
Communist Party advocates, teaches
and justifies the overthrow of the
government, by force of arms, and
aims to bring about a change in
industrial ownership and control by
force and violence, and unlawful
means of terrorism, we prove the
Communist Party Illegal"
Judge Alters Quotation
In this connection, it must be
noted that Judge Dial M. Lennon
presiding, took upon himself to alter
a quotation from the Declaration
of independence, used by the de-
Tense in question to juror. The
quotation, which upholds the right
of the people to overthrow govern
ment by revolution, was modified
by the judge to read that the change
in government must be brought
about lawfully"
Under Judge Lemons ruling,
The signers of the Declaration Of
Independence and the American
colonists who overthrow British rule
in this country, as well as Jefferson
and Lincoln would have come with
in the scope of the California Grim
inal Syndicalism Law.
Trial of the eighteen defendants
may start this week, as the jury
is nearly selected and the challenges
of the defense exhausted in it's de,
termined attempt to keep stool
pigeons, employees of the police de-
partment, vigilantes and other anti
working class elements off the jury
Protests against the frame-up Of
the defendants and the attack or
the Communist Party, with demand.
for the release of the eighteen work
ers and the repeal of the anti
working class criminal syndicalist
law should be sent Immediately tt
Governor Frank Merriam, Judge
Dial M. Lennon, and District At
torney McAllister, all at Sacramento
California.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
REPORT MANY
SLAIN IN NEW
NAzI PUR &c
Saar Newspapers Reveal
Wholesale Killings
of Storm Troopers

SAARBRUEKEN, Dec. 27-One
hundred Storm Troopers have been
killed in a new bloody purge" by
Hitler, the newspaper Volksstimme
reports, and 1000 have been ar
rested in the past few days. Ac-
cording to the Weltbuehne, more
than 23O have been slain by Hitler's
order and 1000 to 1000 arrested in
Berlin alone. Many of the arrests
we're carried out on the pretext Of
sex abnormality."
The Nazi paper Abendblatt
printed an official Nazi propaganda
story from Berlin stating that 800
were arrested for sexual abnormal
ity "in a new cleaning action"
On Christmas Day heavy senten-
ces against Communists and other
militant workers were announced in
Berlin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28

cist features. All the preparations
for fascism are coming right out
of it, and as a result of it. We in
Britain have our Sedition Bill. I
see that you too are beginning to
have your Congressional Commit
tees for the investigation of I'M
American activities. These are
similar phases in preparation for
faScism."
1--WE Can Fight Fascism"
After some comments of mine,
Strachey replied very earnestly,
you must make it as clear as you
can that this development is not
inevitably fated to succeed what
ever we may do. We can fight 1t.
We in England, despite the many
weaknesses in our fight, did succeed
in creating a united front that was
successful in combining some of the
more oppressive features of the
measure We did wrest concessions.
Our experience, as many other ex-
periences elsewhere show us how
real is the possibility of defeating
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
Paterson e.. Z.
Invites Keller
tOUnionDebate

PATERSON, N. j., Dec. 27.-The
local section of the Communist
Party has challenged Eli Keller,
Lovestonite and reactionary man
ager of the American Federation
of Silk Workers here, to appear
at mass meeting at Carpenters
Hall on Monday to defend his &C
tons in the union.
The meeting will be addressed by
Jack Stachel, acting secretary of the
Trade Union Unity League, on THE
Role of Political Parties in the
Trade Unions" Stachel will deal,
during the course of his talk, with
the conduct of various groups which
were expelled from the Communist
Party for their political renegacy.
In a statement announcing the
mass meeting the Communist Party
called upon the silk workers to re-
ject the proposed contract which
Keller's committee has negotiated.
The agreement, to be proposed to
a meeting of shop chairmen and
delegates of the local tomorrow pro-
vides for the question Of wages to
be submitted to arbitration and be
binding upon the workers. The
Communist Party's statement said
in part:
THE Communist Party advises
the silk workers to reject the pro-
posed contract. This contract is
designed only for the benefit of the
silk bosses. What good is a con-
tract which leaves wage scales to be
settled by arbitration? Does Keller
and his negotiating committee think
that the workers have forgotten
the last contract with its relations
board which gave them three per
cent cut?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
$4,000 MINERS
CALL STRIKE
AGAINST CUT
Rank and File in Two
Unions Back Walkout
At Wilkes-Barre

WILKES BARRE, Pa, Dec. 27,-
A strike was called today by the
United Anthracite Miners Of Penn
sylvania, of the $4,000 miners work
ing in the collieries of the Glen
Alden Coal Company, the worlds
largest anthracite producer.
The main reason for calling the
strike, the union announces, is the
wage cut for brakemen on motors,
put over by the scheme of placing
patchers in brakemen's positions
and paying them patchers' scale of
$318 a day. The rate for brakemen
on motors is 1928 a day.
The strike vote was taken at a
special meeting of the membership
called last night. The Anthracite
Miners Union is an independent
organization formed some years ago
after the reactionary Boylan lead
ership in the United Mine Workers
of America CA. F. of ID diSgusted
the miners with their sell-out pol
icies. However, the Anthracite
Union is also led by different set
of reactionaries who include such
people as Thomas Maloney. There
are also members of the U.MW.A.
working in the mine.
The rank and file of both unions
favor strike struggle on the basis of
a united front, with united front
strike committees elected in each
colliery, representing all those in
the mine, regardless of which union
they are in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
ITALIAN ARMY
IN NEW DRIVE
Discovery of Rich Oil
Deposits in Abyssinia
Hastens Attack

GENEVA, Dec. 27.-The discovery
Of rich oil deposits in Abyssinia was
revealed today as the immediate
cause of the armed invasion of that
country by troops of the fascist
Italian dictator, Mussolini, as the
first phase in a renewed drive by
the imperialist bandits for the loot
ing and partition of the Negro
country.
The oil districts are said to be
located in the area now claimed by
Italy, but which, according to off,
cial Italian maps issued at late as
1925, are shown to be well within
the Abyssinian frontier. League of
Nations circles admitted today that
the struggle of the imperialiSt
powers for oil is also behind the
bloody war raging for the past three
years and more in the Chaco, in
which British and American i'm
perialists are fighting, through their
puppet governments of Paraguay
and Bolivia, respectively, for con-
troll of the much-coveted natural
resources.
With italian troops, supplemented
by tanks and airplanes, penetrating
each day further into Abyssinian
territory, the native bourgeois rul-
ers, fearful that a peoples war
against the invaders would under
mine their own privileged position
as the worst exploiters of the toll
ing native population, are refusing
to arm the population, but are in
stead directing futile appeals to the
League of Nations. This is the same
disastrous policy which led to the
betrayal of Manchuria to Japan by
the Marking government of the
Kuomintang China.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
MORE UNIONS URGE INSURANCE
K|R0v KILLER ACCUSES FOREIGN CONSUL
Anniversary Edition
OF the Daily Worker
Will Appear Jan. 10

The combined Special Ami
versa-y and Lenin Memorial Edi-
ton Of the Daily Worker will be
printed Saturday, Jan. 10.
An edition which every worker
will wish to preserve, it will give
vivid account of the world
shaking events that have taken
place during the present period.
All orders for this edition
should be placed NOWl
All workers should send greet
ings and collect greetings.
Use the coupon printed on an
other page!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
IS MINERS
DIE IN BLAST
Explosion ofLocomotive
Skaters Train Bear
ing Men to Work

MONTGOMERY, w. Va, Dec. 27.
Thirteen coal miners were killed
today and about so injured, Is of
them seriously when the locomotive
Of the train in which they were
riding to work was ripped apart by
the explosion Of the boiler.
The explosion occurred one mile
from Mine Number 5 Of the Elk
horn Piney Coal Company, a sub
sidiary of the Koppers Coal Com
pany.
Most of the victims were killed
almost instantly as the boiler, lifted
into the air, crashed down on the
coach Immediately behind the loco
motive, cutting it in two and filling
the wreckage with live steam. Some
OF the miners were scalded to death
and others were seriously burned.
There we're about 100 men in the
wrecked coach. -Four escaped with
out injury.
Early reports pointed to negh-
gence on the part of the Koppers
Coal Company, which operates the
train, as the cause for the accident.
A defective water injector which
controls the amount Of water in the
boiler is believed to have caused the
explosion. The train is not run as
common carrier but as private
means OF transporting miners who
live along the railroad line, to the
mine.
An hour after the explosion the
scene and nearby hospitals were
crowded with the wives, daughters
and relatives Of the victims, anxi-
ously seeking information of the
tragedy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28

Seamen are asking: Can We win more favorable
terms than those contained in the proposed agree
ment? The answer is YES. Should we give up the
right to strike? NEVER. The october strike forced
the shipowners to offer the crumbs contained in
the agreement, hoping would be satisfied and
because they believed our weak organization, and
especially the lack of united front between the
various seamen's unions based upon militant pro-
gram of action and controlled by the rank and file,
will make it impossible for the seamen to success
fully resist the terms agreed upon by the ship
owners and the IS.U. negotiating committee. If
the shpowners were FORCED to negotiate and even
grant some concessions in spite of these weaknesses
and divisions in ranks, then it is clear that
aggressive policy and strong united front under
rank and file leadership and control, can compel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
900 FERA Workers
Strike in Montana
For Minimum Wage

BUTTE, Mont, Dec. 27.-Six
hundred F.E.R.A. relief workers
struck here yesterday against the
Roosevelt hunger wages, which
average five to six dollars a week.
The relief workers, who are
employed on the F.E.R.A. sewer
project here, demand a guaran-
teed thirty-hour week and a min
imum wage of $3.50. In addi-
ton to the guaranteed minimum
wage, the men demand that mar
ried men should receive Sc for
the first dependent and $3.50 for
each additional dependent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
Jobless Miners Seize
Town Hall in Protest
Against Unemployment,

LILLE. France, Dec. 27.-Police
drove 200 jobless miners from the
town hall of the village of Iwuy
yesterday after an overnight protest
against unemployment. The aroused
miners stormed the town hall and
occupied it. They spent the night
there singing revolutionary songs
and defying efforts to dislodge them.
The wives and children of the
miners also deserted their tradi-
tional Christmas Eve occupations to
demonstrate before the home of the
Mayor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
C CONFESSION
ADMITS PLOT
TO KILL STAIN
Zinoviev-Trotzky Group
Also Worked for
Intervention

MOSCOW, Dec. I'll The Id
members of the former Trotzky-
ite-Zinoviey bloc, who hand in
hand with White Guard fascist
groups plotted and executed the
terrorist murder of Sergei KirOv,
and who were indicted and tried
today by the Military CoIlegium
of the Supreme Court of the us.
S.R., will be shot as enemies of
the working class and counter
revolutionists, according to a re-
port published this afternoon in
Izvestia, Soviet Government or
gan, press dispatches state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
Plan Jan. ! Demonstration

FORT SMITH, Ark. Dec. 27. =
Final arrangements have been made
here for a mass demonstration at
the court house, Monday. Jan. 7.
at the time when the delegates at
the National Congress for Unem-
ployment Insurance prescott their
demands to Roosevelt and to Con-
gress.
A united front conference held
here last week elected ten delegates
to the National Congress and to set
up a permanent united front COM
mittee for relief and unemploy-
ment insurance for Arkansas and
Eastern Oklahoma.
Among the IA organizations repre-
senGed by Negro and white dele
gates at the conference were the
United Farmers League, Polk Coun-
ty Relief League, Workmen's Union
Of the World, Unemployment Coun-
ellis, and locals of the Scissors
Workers, Glass Workers. Federation
of Teachers and the United Mine
Workers of America.
The conference went on record as
supporting the Rank and File Fed
erationist, the Rank and File Coal
digger, the autonomy movement in
District 81 Of the U.M.W.A., and the
AIl-Southern Conference Against
Lynching. Other resolutions de-
manded a complete change in the
relief administration and workers
representatives on the local well
fare boards.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
Var always for Profit,
Strachey Tells Masses
British Revolutionary Writer Laughs at Slogan
Take Profit Out of War'-Says NRA Is Step
Toward Fascism-Speaks Tonight
BY Milton Howard

John Strachey, famous revolutionary author just
rived from England leaned back in his chair and smiled in
answer to my question.
Why that is perfectly ridiculous War is the most prof
table activity there for the capitalists under captasm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
JAN. 5 FARLEY
GETS BACKING
OF S.PLOCALS
NJ any Demonstrations
To Be Held When
Congress Opens

NEW YORK. - Socialist Party
locals and A. F. of L. unions con-
tinue to give increasing support to
the National Congress for Unem-
ployment Insurance as the day Of
the Congress opening nears. So
cialist Party locals in Massachusetts,
and Virginia, miners in Illinois, IN
employed Leagues and jobless'
groups under the leadership of the
Socialist Party are listed in the
latest reports.
In cities and towns, plans are be-
ing speeded for mass dernonstra-
tons during the week that the Ma
tional Congress is in session, de-
handing increased local relief and
endorsement of the Workers IN
employment Insurance Bill by the
local governing bodies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
sOcialist-Ied Jobless Back Congress

NEW YORK. - Local 10 of the
Workers Unemployed Union unan-
imously voted to instruct its dele
gates to the City Central Commit
tee to vote for sending delegates to
the National Congress for Unem-
ployment Insurance.
David LASER, chairman Of the
Workers Unemployed Union of New
York, leading Socialist Party
member, is chairman Of Local 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
Ohio To Send 300 Delegates
DAILY Worker Ohio Bureau)

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 81. -
About 270 delegates to the National
Congress for Unemployment Insur-
ance have already been elected in
Ohio. 1t is expected that the entire
State delegation will be over 800,