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The Washington times., 1934-03-14
SPEAKS TO KNIGHTS

Rev. George F.. Strohaver, S. j.,
Of Georgetown University, will be
the principal speaker before Wash
ington General Council, Fourth
Degree, Knights of Columbus, next
Monday night, at the Mayflower
Hotel.
The Washington times., 1934-03-14
Teachers VIII Hear
Vocational Reports

Reports of the National Voca-
tional Guidance Association,
which met last month in Cleve-
land, will be read by delegates
representing the Teachers Advis-
ory Council, March %, at Wilson
Teachers College at 3:45 p. m.
The meeting for the colored
teachers will be held the same day
and time at Dunbar High School.
The Washington times., 1934-03-14
SANITARY GROUP DANCES

Several hundred members of
the Sanitary Employees Associa-
ton gathered at the Washington
Hotel last night for dance. An
entertainment program was also
given by the Sanitary Glee Club
and pupils of the Anna T. Mitchell
School of Dancing.
The Washington times., 1934-03-14
Board of Commissioners

The Commissioners did not meet board
Commissioner Hazen announced plans for cherry bios
som festival. (Story Page 2, this section)
E. Barrett Prettyman will take office Corporation
Counsel tomorrow. (Story on this page.)
The Washington times., 1934-03-14
House

The House District Committee met and avoraby reported
the Black horse racing bill Time of meeting and onehaf
hours Those present Representatives Palmsano Black
Jenckes Randolph, Wedeman Dirkson Harlan, Burnham,
OBrien and Clark O Those absent Representatives
Norton Patman Kennedy Owen Werner, Starker Whitley,
Withrow and Muldowney (9). (Story Sports Page)
DR.. George F. Bowerman District librarian the only
witness at todays session of the District subcommittee Of
the House Appropriations Committee Sory this Page
The Washington times., 1934-03-14
DiStriCtLOS
MRS. HOFFMAN

daily resume of all action in the House and Senate
dealing SOLELY uvith the District of Columbia and all
action by the House and Senate District Committees
and Board of District Commissioners.
The Washington times., 1934-03-14
Senate
The Senate District Committee did not meet

Senator Ernest Gibson (R) Of Vermont announces he
will introduce resolution in the future asking that
commission be appointed to study traffic congestion in
Washington and report to the Senate with recommends
tions.
Hearings the old age pension bills before the Sen
District Committee will be begun before subcommittee
headed by Senator Robert R. Reynolds W Of North Caro-
lima time next week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-01

. masses Of the population in the en-
! tire world. And this must be ever
stronger because the governments,
the parliaments, the reactionary
parties and their press in all the
capitalist countries favor the prov
ocations Of Japan.
1.-THE situation is so serious, the
danger of war against the Soviet
Union so menacing, the desire for
war of the japanese militarists and
the concurrence of all the great
powers are 50 evident, that actually
the working masses Of the whole
world ought to ally themselves and
to realize a unity Of action of the
largest scope in order to restrain,
by their militant action, the Japa-
nese government from executing its
macabre plan which will transform
the world into a slaughter house.
1t is the supreme necessity of the
hour.
1--WE urge all mmitt S
against war and fascism to mobi-
lie the largest masses to defend
the Soviet Union against invasion
by Japan. We address the same
appeal to all those who desire
peace, no matter to what party they
belong or what tendency they rep
resent.
I'VE address ourselves to all So
cialist and Communist workers and
to their parties, as we'll as to the
unions into which they have Or
ganized the common struggle of the
masses and with which they will
make impossible, in all ways, a war
against the u. s. S. r.
LET us organize, on the broadest
possible base, common demonstra-
tons; let las send, in common,
powerful protests to the japanese
consulates and legations in all
countries.
Let US organize meetings in the
war industries, the railroads, and
above all in the ports, where are
transported to Japan the arms, the
munitions and the military air.
planes, the first necessities for the
industry of war.
'Iet us organize united action to
make impossible the transportation
of this material of war.
Let us unite and use all our
forces to exercise a powerful and
irresistible pressure on the govern
ment of each country, their parlia-
ments, and all their public repre-
sentatives.
LET us organize, without losing
minute, the unity of struggle of
laborers, white collar workers, in
tellectuals, of peasants, shopkeep-
ers Of women, of the youth; in
brief, Of all the enemies of war and
their organizations, in order to
erect over the entire world an in
vincible wall of defence for the So
Wet Union and to block the mach
nations Of the instigators Of war"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-01
New York Delegates Are
Pledged to Policy
of Militancy

Brown then showed how this can
be done:
"Of course, before this can be
accomplished the job holders,
Berry, Howard, Voltz, DeYeze and
Haggerty must be displaced by
rank and file amalgamationists
With the amalgamatiOn of the
printing workers into one union,
the interest Of one department
would be the direct concern of all.
Scales would be negotiated jointly
and in case of strikes all would
go out"
1t should be quite obvious to the
most casual observer of trade union
events that the amalgamation policy
is gaining ground among the men,
bership. The recent unanimous
vote Of the membership of Big Six
to support the fight of the New York
Newspaper Guild for the reinstate-
ment of Alexander Crosby, an edi-
torial writer who was fired for join
ing the Guild, was q sharp blow
to the advocates of the reactionary
craft union policy and a decided
victory for the amalgamationists
the militants and honest trade
union forces. The passage of thit
resolution and the subsequent con.
crete brotherly assistance given tt
the editorial workers by members o.
Big Six marks an important ster
forward toward the establishment o.
real trade union unity among al
organized workers on newspapers
All this shows which way the wine
is blowing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-01
Councils Call Action on
Workers Unemployed
Insurance Bill
BY 1. ARFTER
BY 1. ARFTER
National Secretary, Unemployment
Councils, Communist Candidate for
Governor of New York

National Secretary, UnempIOyment
Councils, Communist Candidate fOI
Governor of New York
The demand of the masses for
unemployment and social insurance
is being challenged by the Roose-
welt government. Although social
insurance was promised" to the
forgotten man" two years ago in
the election campaign of 1882, it is
still a promise" Today consider
ing the new program of Roosevelt,
which is taking tangible form, 1t is
no longer a promise but a MYTH.
What is Roosevelt's program? It
consists of three points as an
nounced in his message to Con-
gress on June 9th. In this mes
sage he stated
This security for the individual
and for the family concerns It
self primarily with three factors.
People want decent homes to live
in; they want to locate them
where they can engage in prOduc-
tive work; and they want some
safeguard against misfOrtunes
which cannot be wholly eImi-
mated in this man-made world of
ours" Emphasis mine-I. A..
Under the first point decent
homes-Roosevelt has in mind a
home construction program, and his
hOme-renOvatiOn plan. AS far as
the first is concerned, it can be
stated that home and building con-
struction is down to a level below
that Of many years. The home
renovation plan Is supervised
through the Federal Housing Com
mission and the Home Owners
Loan Corporation, which has made
loans to somewhat more than AGO.
900 individuals. This includes only
such home owners as have a good
equity in their property - that is
those who are not mortgaged up
to the neck. This necessarily ex-
cludes all small hOmeowuers. The
oAAAOuAlV lOet1ACQ 10 ~ SllldAl JAAdO ~
is no real help to any building pro-
gram.
Always Promises"
In putting through the home
building program, which although
adopted in the last session of Con-
gress has made no progress what
ever and is looked upon as a pro-
gram for next year (it is always
next yearD, the government hopes
to get reduced rates for materials
and railroad haulage and par
ticulsrly for labor costs. This means
sharp reductions in pay for build
ing trades workers. However this
program is still a promise" and
means nothing for the coming fall
and winter.
The second point, Of locating
where the workers can engage IN
productive work" refers to the sub
sistence homesteads, which were IN
corporated in the national indus
trial recovery act. According to
this plan, the surplus population of
the cities-that is workers who have
been permanently displaced from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-01
Anti War Group Warns Of Japanese Attack on U.SSR.
Americans Urged to Speed Plans for Chicago Congress

c h u b, youth organizations,
branches and locals of the Socialist,
Communist and Farmer Labor
Party, etc. Under the auspices of
this Arrangements Committee, plans
should be worked out for reaching
further organizations and drawing
them into action on the basis of
the local needs and demands. SINH
lar action should be taken on a
state scale, providing for state con-
ventiOns and marches.
We Must Reach All Organizations
of Workers
Today we have access to thou
sands of organizations, which al
ready have endorsed the Workers
Bill. Thus all locals of the Anal
gamated Association of Iron, Tin
and Steel Workers, the Mine and
Shelter Workers Union, United
Textile Workers, American Fedora
ton Of Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers, the inteTnationals, which
at conventions have endorsed the
Workers Bills, should be open to
approach. The endorsement of
State Federations of Labor and of
central labor bodies should open
the doors of all locals of the state
and city District Councils of
painters, District Boards of miners,
regional conferences Of railway en-
gineers, the national convention of
the Unemployed Leagues, etc. ETC..
having endorsed the Workers Bill,
should serve as a key for entering
the locals Of these organizations.
The endorsement of the Workers
Bill by nearly fifty municipal and
village councils, should give us
access to every working class or
ganization of every character in
these cities and towns. Various
church and fraternaI organizations
have gone on record for unemploy-
ment insurance. It is our task to
get in contact with their member
ship and bring forward the Workers
Bill.
We must try not only to draw
these organizations into the local,
county and state Arrangements
Committees, but also into all actions
in the struggle for relief, Jobs and
for the Workers Bill. We should
try to do something more. We
should endeavor to prevail. for
instance, on the union locals to
call conferences of locals of their
international on a local or state
scale, and also to call general
trade union conferences to take I'D
the question Of work, relief and the
Workers Bill. BY activizing these
unionists not only to the extent of
endorsing the Workers Bill, which is
an excellent first step, but of
participating in struggle for real
izing the Bill, we will be estab-
fishing the movement that prom
lses to make the Mass Congress in
Washington the most impressive,
effective and comprehensive of its
kind ever held in this country. We
should proceed similarly with Negro,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-01
Howard Machine Works
To Maintain Old
Craft Union Plan
BY HARRY RAYMOND

THE seventy eighth convention of
l the International Typographical
Union, which will open its sessions
in Chicago on Sept. 8, will perhaps
be the first convention of the union
where the basic class collaboration
policy Of Mr. Charles Howard and
the I. T. U. executive council will be
sharply challenged by the rank and
file. Although the bureaucratic
machine has been working at high
speed for some time to set the stage
for the entrance of the executive
councils Steam-roller, the rank and
file movement, which has grown to
considerable proportions since the
last convention, two years ago, will
make its militant voice heard on the
floor at the coming session.
The plans Of the executive council
for making the convention rostrum
for a crowd of Republican and
Democratic politicians and repre-
sentatites of the publishers have al
ready been announced in the Au-
gust issue of the Typographical
Journal. Among the worthy gentle
men who have been invited by the
leadership of the union to spout
sweet demagogic phrases of undying
love for labor are: S. E. Thomason,
president of the Chicago Newspaper
Publishers Association; Mayor E. j
Kelly of Chicago; Governor Henry
Horner; Emmett Whealan, presi-
dent Cook County Board of Com
nissioners, and a group of capital
lists representing the Association OF
Commerce and the Century OF
Progress.
Viewing this remarkable lineup
1t should be clear that Mr.. Howard
and his oily assistants calculate &c
make the convention get-togethei
similar 10 conventions of the past
a cheap show marked with horrible
billingsgate, a packed meeting where
the dead hand of craft union
ism will swing the gavel an ex-
hibition of skulldugery where strikes
will be frowned upon and efforts
exerted to discourage them. In
short. the Executive Council, dream
ing of the well-oiled rallies for class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-01

fraternal, youth. farm organiza-
tions, clubs, etc
In the course Of preparing and
carrying out the local, county and
state actions, we must accomplish
two things:
Build Unemployment Councils and
United Front
I-BUILD UP THE gNEM.
PLoYMENT COUNCILS. The
prestige and standing Of the Ma.
tionaI Unemployment Council Is
incOntestabIe. The workers are
looking for organization and
struggle. NOW Is the time and
opportunity to build the Councils.
Forces must be assigned to this,
Q CENTRAL task in cOnnee ton
with the Mass Congress.
UILD THE UNI1. I'd
FRONT OF ALL UNE T.
PLOYED ORGANIZATIONS
STRUGGLE. This is an on
standing task and one that MAJ
be easily realized owing to tina
urge Of the rank and file fer
unity, In spite of the opposition
and splitting action Of the re-
fCrImist leaders. This is to be ac-
cOmplished in the local and
county struggles, and should lead
to the merging Of the unen-
plOyed organizations into one.
The tentative plans for the local.
county state and the National
Mass Congress have been sent out.
The final plans win be worked out
by the National Arrangements
Committee. Steps should be taken
in all localities by the Unemploy-
ment Councils to form the Arrange
ments Committees in the localities.
so that with growing pressure and
struggle, Roosevelt will learn at the
National Mass Congress that UNI
employment and social insurance
is no longer to be played with
either by him or his associates as
promise" but is now the GEN.
TRIAL demand of the working pop
ulation of the country. The gov
eminent must be made to UNDER
Standard before that every csndi-
date for Office in the coming cleo
tiOns-that we have in mind only
ONE bill that meets the needs. not
of the government for its own
demagogic purposes, nor of the A.
F. of L. executive for its struggle
against the rank and file; nor of
the American employers who want
no unemployment insurance, but
of the American working class.
This Mass Congress and the work
for it will exert such pressure that
the realization of security through
social insurance" through the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill will be assured"
Concentration on the Mass Com
gress for Social Security I'm
Washington - broadening Of the
united characterization of all
possible forces-building mp of the
Unemployment Councils - roofing
the Party among the masses-that
is our task.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-01
Social Security Congress
To Urge Real Insurance for Jobless

industry-SOOO0O miners, hundreds
of thousands of railroad, auto, steei
workers, etc. - will be transported
to the countryside where they will
work in factories at relief rates
This is supposed to enable them tc
buy small patch of land, on which
they will raise their own food, and
pay of the purchase price Of the
land and the interest on it through
their work in the factories. It is
obvious that this means a direct
drive ON the workers in the cities
and their wage rates, and It will
also cut down the markets OF the
farmers creating a new set of
farmers and driving out some Of the
old ones.
In this category must be included
also the semi military C.C.C. camps,
in which more than $4,000 boys
already have been given military
training; the transient camps which
are scattered throughout the coun-
try and contain hundreds of thou
sands Of single men working under
similar conditions TO those prevail
ing in the C.C.C. camps.
Unemployment Insurance Promise"
The third point OF Safeguard
against misfortune" has been "in-
te1preted" to mean unemployment
insurance, since in the same mes
sage Roosevelt spoke of the
security of social insurance" being,
together with the other promises"
minimum Of the promises ID
that we can offer 10 the American
people"
This security" was supposed to
be embodied in the Wagner-Lewis
bill, which was introduced in Con-
gress on February 5th, three days
after the introduction Of the Work
ers Unemployment and Social In
surance Bill. In a letter to the
House Ways and Means Commit
tee, in March, Roosevelt gave his
endorsement to the Wagner-Lewis
bill. But he did not put it on the
must list" of those bills that had
to be passed in the last session of
Congress. 1t was allowed to die
and a committee was set up by the
president to Study" unemployment
insurance. The head Of the COM
mittee is Frances Perkins, another
enthusiastic supporter Of the Wag-
ner-Lewis bin.
Hopkins Plan Drops Unemployment
Insurance
Harry L. Hopkins, federal relief
director, was sent abroad to study
the various relief and insurance
systems in operation in the coun-
tries of Europe. He has returned
and we now know Roosevelt's plans.
We are informed that the relief will
lend with the emergency" When
Is that, Mr.. Roosevelt Hoover
predicted It - your advent to the
presidency was also supposed to end
it. IT is stin with us, with no pros
peet of an end. This is only a
warning to the workers not to ex-
pect anything in this respect from
the government.
The plan in brief as reported in
the N. Y. Times Of Aug. Oath, is as
follows:
First and cheapest, according
to the relief administration, is
direct relief; better, though
slightly more expensive, Is the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-01
Appeal Cites Arrests
OF Soviet Citizens
By Japan in Far East
American Congress Against War and Fascism, Sci
for Sept. %, 20 and 30, To Protest
Japanese Militarists' ProvOeations

PARIS, Aag. 29.-Calling on all
taeiE sdherents and everybody op-
posed 10 war to undertake measures
now against the Japanese imperi-
alis5 threat Of war against the
Soviet Union, the World Committee
of Struggle Against ImpeTiahst
War and Fascisn and the World
Youth Committee has just issued
a statement and directives for this
struggle. The committee is headed
by Henri Barbusse, famous French
author.
This appeal is one more clarion
cali to all opponents Of war and
fascisn in America to work to make
the coming Second q. s. Congress
Against War and Fascism represent
tstivs OF millions in America and
It's voice one which no one can
overlook. This Congress, sponsored
By the American section Of the
World Committee which issued this
appeal, will be held in Chicago
Sept. 2e, % and 80.
The statement follows:
The World Committee and the
World Youth Committee against
war and fascism have stressed in a
manifesto, adopted two weeks ago
In Plenum of their International
Offices, that the danger of war
against the Soviet Union becomes
more and more menacing. 'Japa-
nese provocationS continue and the
preparations of Imperialism close TO
the Soviet frontiers prove that ia
pan wishes at any price and soon
to engulf the U. S. s. R. Besides,
the masters Of Japan do not con-
cesl any part of their goal
This analysis of the Plenum
finds itself confirmed in an alarm
ing way. The Japanese military
Clique seeks avidly for an occasion
to declare war against the U. S.
8. R. by its INSCRIPTIONS provoca-
tons.
Within the last few days, thirty
Soviet citizens, functionaries Of the
Chinese Eastern Railway, have
been arrested at Hardin. Under
the pretext of maintaining order,
the japanese government has the
intention of applying martial law
to all the territory of the Chinese
Eastern Railway in order to seize
the railroad.
"An assault has been committed
against the Soviet Consul General
at Hardin by Russian White
Guard, fJlnctionary of Manchukuo.
'"These arbitrary insolent attacks
multiply themselves. But the So
Wet government pursues indefatig-
ably and heroically its glorious
policy of peace which corresponds
to the vital interests and to the
desire for peace Of all peoples. War
has until now been STAYED off
thanks to this policy Of peace of
the o. S. S. r. War can be avoided
only by the organized action of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-01

the fight for relief for the unem-
ployed.
The recommendations are grouped
under four headings:
~ Changes in and additions to
the present laws to provide relief
for unemployed members.
~ Revision of the present laws
governing strikes and lockouts to
increase powers Of local unions
and curtail the present powers of
the executive council.
(3) Closer affiliation between al
lied printing trades unions.
a. Changes in laws governing
endorsements for I. T. y. can
didates and initiative referen-
durns.
While the I. T. U. convention is
being held, conference of I'M
employed union members will
simultaneously go into session in
Chicago. The conference, in
itiated by the Unemployed Associa.
ton of Blk Six, is expected to pro.
pose that the convention abolish
the one per cent limitation on un.
employment relief assessments, tha-
It authorize the local unions to in.
stitute an emergency four day week
that it exempt the unemployed from
dues payment, that it guarantee
local unions the freedom to negoti.
ate scales go hour week without
reduction in wages, for example
without interference of the I. T. U
president, and that the convention
endorses the Workers Unemploy
ment and Social Insurance Bill.
Briefly speaking, these are tn,
main issues of the convention. I
is impossible to predict at this tim,
just what will be the concrete re
suits.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-01
The AmaIgamation Fight

THE Amalgamation Party is carry
L ing on a fight for the amalgama-
ton Of all unions in the printing
trade into one union, thus breaking
down the old craft system which
has always acted as a brake on
struggles in the printing trades.
The Amalgamation Party cites ex-
amples of how this system has been
instrumental in defeating strikes. In
Paterson, NJ j., the composing room
men came out on strike, but stereo-
typers and pressmen remained on
the job, being ordered to do so by
their officials, thus actually scab-
bling on the compositors.
Elmer Brown, leader of the Anal
gamation Party, writing in the
August issue of the Printing Worker,
asks; IF the proofreaders, machin-
lists, compositors, linotype operators,
monotype operators, make-ups, bank
men and copy cutters find it adyan-
tageous to belong to one union, why
can't the pressmen, engravers, writ
ers, stereotypers and others who
work for the same employer, en-
gagged in producing the. same piece
OF printing, analgamate into one
union?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-01
Instructions to Delegates
ANOTHER encouraging factor Il

ANOTHER encouraging factor That
stands out like a beacon light
showing the way to honest and
militant trade unionism is the list
of convention instructions for the
delegates of local union Number Six
worked out by committee elected
last June and later reported to the
union membership and adopted. The
recommendations of the committee,
which were drawn up in brief and
concise document, instructed dele
gates TO the convention to support