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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Pa Work Among Unemployed OF
Do the Party Districts Take the Unemployed Work Seriously?

eral Executive Council of the A. F.
Of LII not in face of the growing
number of locals that went on record
in favor of the Workers Bill?
The offset the increasing support of
this Bill, the bosses and the politi-
clans, with Roosevelt at their head,
have introduced bogus bills. Although
many politicians may state that they
are not opposed to the Workers Bill,
and that the fake bills that they In
troduce are more realistic" and
capable Of adoption" 1t Is clear that
they are being proposed in order to
Offset the Workers Bill. The con-
ference called by Frances Perkins on
February IS, had this definitely in
mind.
Struggle for Immediate Demands
Basic
The ground work of the struggle
for the Workers Bill must laid In the
daily struggle for relief, against evic-
tions, on the C. w. A. Jobs, against
discrimination Of Negroes and for
eign-born, for relief for single and
young workers, against the c. C. G.
and transient camps, etc.
Splendid struggles have taken place
in all parts Of the country-inany Of
them spontaneous struggles.
How does 1t happen that in those
districts where there Is the best
trained Party membership, in the
District centers, where the Party can
most easily direct the comrades-in
the main there have been the weak
est struggles? How does 1t happen
that although there has been the most
widespread discrimination against
Negro workers-and this has been Of
long standing, although unemploy-
ment is rifest among the Negroes
the work of the Party among the
unemployed Negro workers has been
dangerously weak? In Chicago and
Cleveland, where our stronghold
among the Negroes was built exactly
on the basis of struggle against I'M
employment, how do the comrades
explain the situation?
the instructions for building up or
How does it happen that although
ganization on the G. w. A. Jobs were
issued more than two months age
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Forward" Prints
Lying Article on
Hathaway Attack
Accuses Communists of
Beating Up Daily
Worker Editor

NEW YORK. - Sundays issue Of
The Jewish Daily Forward, In an in
side page story devoted to Fridays
meeting at Madison Square Garden,
prints the absurd and lying state
ment that Communists beat up
Clarence Hathaway, editor OF the
Daily Worker.
The organ Of Abe Cahan, who sat
on the platform just behind the
speakers table where Hathaway was
first struck, declares that Hathaway
went up to the platform with whole
group Of Communists for the pr-
pose Of taking possession Of the plat
form, and that it was Communist
workers who threw chairs at the So
cialists and hit Hathaway. The For
ward piece also declares that the
Communists tore down the American
flag.
The vicious and provocative nature
Of this mess Of lies will be readily
apparent to all workers who actually
witnessed the events which the For
ward SO glihly diStorts. Every worker
saw Hathaway approach and mount
the platform alone and they wit
messed the brutal assault on him by
occupants Of the platform, all SP.
and right wing union leaders. Not a
single Communist was on the plat
form when the American flag was
trampled by Socialist leaders In an
overt attempt at provocatlon.
The Forward printed this fiction on
Sunday.
In its Saturday issue, fearful OF
the reaction Of the Socialist rank and
file workers who witnessed the entire
shameful action Of the SIP. leaders,
it did not mention word of this in
cident.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21

part to the c. w. A. rapidly enough.
Where, however, it was done the
work in the neighborhoods slumped,
with the result that the struggles
everywhere weakened.
In the Districts where the issue was
tackled concretely on the basis Of
local conditions, where there was a
rapid fire Of struggle, the movement
did not weaken, but on the contrary
grew both politically and organiza-
tionally, e.gY Pittsburgh, Seattle.
Forces Not Utilized
What does this show? 1t shows that
the Districts, concentrating on the
main work of the Party, forgot TO
relate the unemployed struggle to the
shop and concentration work. Where
formally they did so, it has been in
the form Of resolutions and decisions.
The District Committees have not
guided the daily work, helping the
fractions of theUnennploy1nent Coun-
ellis not only to build up organization,
but to meet the specific local political
issues and lead the workers in strug-
gle. In most cases the contentious
of the District comrades have been
based on alleged weakness of forces. .
But the forces in and aroundthe Party
lie unused. A large percentage of the
Party members are unemployed. A
high percentage of the recruits in the
past year have been unemployed. In
the unions and mass organizations
surrounding the Party are large num-
bers Of unemployed. Why have the
Districts, Sections not modified these
workers politically and organization
ally for unemployed work?
This would have achieved double
effect: 1t would have rallied the work
ers and their organizations for I'M
employed work and at the same time
have given us access to many i'm
porant shops. The building Of I'M
employed organization In the neigh
borhood of concentration shops would
have enabled us to penetrate them
more easily. 1t would have brought
about closer solidarity and unity of
the unemployed and employed than
ever before. The unemployed have
been rallied for important strike
struggles - McKees Rock, Ambridge,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
BY ]. AMTER

The resolution Of the 18th Plenum
OF the Communist international,
which lays down our tasks in q sit
nation wherein "the world Is closely
approaching a new round Of revolt
ton and wars" contained small
section on the tasks of the Com
munist Parties" which is most i'm
portant in the development Of our
entire work. It reads as follows
I'D Really developing mass work
among the unemployed, carrying on
an untirfng fight for social insur-
aa1ce, for all kinds of municipal
relief"
Although the sharpest emphasis has
been laid by the Resolution on work
in the shops and trade unions as the
basic work Of the Party, in order to
mobilize the decisive sections of the
working class to meet the impending
class battles, the above passage OF
the Resolution-work on the unem-
ployed f1eld-lhas been seriously neg
lected. The army of unemployed has
declined only one million since the
Inauguration of the New Deal" To-
day 1t number 100000 and now
is receiving new recruits through the
rehabilitation of the G. w. A. Never
theless the Party is not yet aroused
to the necessity Of carrying on ener-
getic work on the unemployed field.
Campaing for Workers Bill Grows
It is not strange phenomenon
that at a time when the unemployed
struggles have been weak and the
campaign for the Workers Unem-
ploylnent and Social Insurance Bill
has Jagged, the politicians in practic-
ally every state and in the United
States Congress have introduced a
food of bills? In reality it is not
strange. The struggles of the workers,
both unemployed and employed, the
conditions of the workers in the shops
and In the unions, have furnished
., fertile field for bringing forward
the Workers Bill.
The result is that wherever a Sc
rious effort has been made to present
the issue, the support has been i'm
mediate. How otherwise can one ex-
plain the change of front of the Gen
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Meat Rots in Columbus
While Thousands Are
Denied Food Relief

COLUMBUS. Ohio.-Tons Of meat
were allowed to spoil in Columbus
while people went hungry.
Hundreds Of needy families we're
denied orders while this meat was
rotting in grocery stores and packing
houses.
The exact amount wasted cannot be
ascertained as the january inventory
submitted by G. L. Lender, director
Of city relief OF Columbus, made no
mention of spoilage. Nevertheless, II
is nearer 10000 pounds than the SOC
pounds announced in the newspapers,
states the recently organized Relief
Workers Union.
Meanwhile Columbus meat dealers
and packinghouses protest the dis
tribution of meat to needy families.
The Relief Workers Union has shown
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Many Join Council After
Winning of Partial
Demands

SANTE FE- New Mexico Feb. Ia
Eighty-four delegates, representing
10 organizations and groups Of IN
organized workers, under the militia
tive Of the Unemployed Local Of the
National Miners Union of Gallup
gathered at the Gonzales Hall In
Santa Fe, on Feb. u and 10, and
establizl State Unemployment
Council Delegates from Roswell
Clovis, Gallup, Hagerton, Albuquer
que, Portales, Cerrillas and Madrid
were present.
Delegates presented the demands
Of the workers before Gov. Hocken-
hull calling for enactment Of the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill; and the appropria-
ton Of funds with which TO pay inn
mediate cash relief 10 all the unem-
ployed workers at the rate OF $40
weekly with SO for each dependent
pending the adoption Of the biz
The demands also called for the con-
tinuauce Of the C.WA. without dis
elimination and conducted under
committees of workers and farmers.
guarantee of the elementary rights
Of workers to assemblage, collective
bargaining; striking, and picketing
without the interference Of intunc-
tons and the militia; and against
the proposed state sales tax.
The delegates also demanded thai
the state provide sufficient funds
with which 10 provide gas, oil snd
food and repair to trucks in order
that the delegates get back to their
homes. This was immediately
granted
The Gallup delegates reported OF
the miserable conditions in the mine
area, and pointed out how the min
ers had struggled for better condi
tons on the job and for adequate
relief.
The conference agenda called for
the singing Of the 'Internationale
before adjournment overnight. This
precipitated an outburst on the part
Of local fascist politician who
claimed to be q socialist. He re-
sorted to proyocation as a vote was
taken and passed to sing the song
Of working solidarity. He was
joined by the Portales Socialist
delegates, who bolted from the meet
ing. The next morning these dis
rupters gave garbled reports to the
local press, which is owned by Sen
ator Cutting. This merely served 70
bring before the public the wide
spread misery Of the unemployed
and soldly united the remaining
local and out-of-town delegates,
The, outcome OF, the conference
was: election Of a state COMMITTEES
and a state organizer with temporary
headquarters in Roswell; decision
to apply Immediately for state
charter; election Of a rank and file
committee to present the demands to
the governor against stopping Of
C.WAs and for special session Of
the state legislature to enact the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill,
More than so workers, who were
present in the hall at the time the
demands we're read, irnmedtatelY
Joined the Santa Fe Unemployment
Council. They greeted the report OF
the partial winning Of the demands
with enthusiastic applause.
Carl Howe, of Gallup, later spoke
to a mass meeting Of $50 workers
and 1t is planned to send delega
ton to the local welfare board with
concrete proposals for relief to I'm
employed workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
New Mexico JObless
Form State Council;
Gallup Miners Active
Chicago C.W.A. Workers
Members of SIP. Union
Hail Communist Program

CHICAGO, Feb. 20.-Two hundred
CWA workers, members Of the So
cialist controlled Unemployed League,
broke into thunderous cheering when
Mac Thorn, Of the Chicago Commit
tee to Aid the Victims Of German
Fascism stated, in answer to a qUes-
ton, that the dictatorship Of the
proletariat would follow the overthrow
Of the Hitler regime.
Thorn, who was invited to speak
before the organization, drew more
applause when he announced in an
sger to another question from the
floor that g great number Of former
Socialist Party members have joined
the Communist Party in the last
year.
A collection Of $4 was taken up
to aid victims Of German fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
German CP Will Get
FundSOfHD Bazaar
To Receive 10 Percent
of Proceeds

NEW YORK!--Although Comrades
Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and the
other defendants Of the Leipzig fire
trial were acquitted weeks ago due to
the mass protests of the working
class Of all countries, they are still
held prisoners Of the Hitler brown
shirts, and their lives are in i'm
minent danger. The whereabouts of
Comrade Thaelmann, brave leader OF
the German Communist Party, is not
known. We do not know whether
Thaelmann still lives.
The revolutionary German workers
are fighting the Nazi terror against
fearful odds, their lives in constant
danger and without the necessary
funds to carry on their work, they
undergo daily hardships to collect
needed funds. We must continue
our protests against the murderous
Hitler gang and we must do every
thing in our power to support our
German comrades.
1t is for these reasons that the
N. Y. District Of the International
Labor Defense announces that 10 per
cent Of all proceeds of the annual
bazaar which takes place Feb. II to
Feb. rs at Manhattan Lyceum, SIS e.
Fourth ST., N. Y. City, will go to the
German Communist Party.
The I. L. D. appeals to all workers
in New York City who want to help
to swell this 10 per cent to attend
the bazaar on one or all of the five
days.
The finest talent in New York has
been procured and there viii be a
splendid program each day. Com
bination tickets may be had for IS
cents. Single admission rs cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Shoe Boss Fixes
Time Card to Give
Only Part Of Pay
By a Needle worker Correspondent

BY a Needle Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-After the shoe strike
was caleld off by the authorities Of the
N. r. A., the IS workers Of the &C"
Shoe Co. on Blocker St, were
threatened by the boss with dismissal
If they joined the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Union. The workers
had already experienced the corrup-
ton of the Boot and Shoe Union Of
ficials, SO they voted for the open
shop rather than vote for a company
union.
The employer was satihed, Of course,
and assured the workers they would
be much better off Just to show
his heart is in the right place, he i'm
mediately signed up with the N. r. A.
But the workers soon found out that
the Blue Eagle is only a weapon to
lower as much as possible their stand
ard Of living.
The workers work here as trimmers
on ehildren's shoes. The speed-up
system is undesirable. They rush
with all their strength to make a
few cents more for their starving
families. They slave under the most
terrible conditions for SO to $40 a
week, at piece work, naturally.
The employer, though he produces
very cheap shoes (S1.25 a pair to sell
in the Southern states) nevertheless
makes between 35 and SO cents profit
on each pair
To pretend he is following the
code, the boss has fixed up a scheme,
so that when the workers come in
the morning, he does not allow them
to punch their cards on the time
clock, but makes them do 1t while
they are working, between 10 and
1890 A. NJ. This mean trick gives
him q perfect excuse to say that the
reason the workers earn so little is
that they do not work full time.
1t Is worthy of note that when q
few of the employees complained to the
Office Of the N. r. A, the agent re-
piled calmly, ct is impossible, your
boss is a perfect gentleman"
These facts prove again how the
agents Of the N. r. A. work in col
liberation with the employers against
the interests Of the workers.
that sabotage has occurred in the
preparation and distribution of meat
and is pressing for an investigation
along thfS line
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
n. Y. Hotels Continue
To Hire Thugs; Mayor
Heads Betrayal Move
Corps of Gunmen Hired
At Labor Racketeering
Agencies
HOUSED IN HOTELS
Workers Urged to Fight
For Demands
By HAIRY RAYMOND

NEW YORK-Despite Mayor La
Guardia's strikebreaking maneuyers
to call OFF the pickets and smash up
the hotel strike, the Hotel Mems
Association is not quite certain that
the cooks and walters strike is over.
If the hotel owners are sure that
he strike hes ended why do they
continue to maintain large corps Of
gunner recruited by the labor
racketeering agencies at the rate OF
SO per head per day2
Why are they still housing scab
dishwashers and kitchen help in 81
per day rooms?
Why do they continue to maintain
recruiting Offices in Boston, Phila-
delphia, Pittsburgh, Albany and
Newark, while telling the public that
all the places are filled?
Why continue running blind ads
in the New York American and the
Times seeking strtkebreakers?
Why does Mr.. HenneSy, strike
breaking director Of the Statler sys-
tenn, not go back to Cleveland If
all is well in the Hotel Pennsyl-
vania?
The truth Of the matter is that
since the strike started, they have
been unable to place on the job
over so strikebreakers who are real
hotel cooks, and q great part Of
these were men over sixty years OF
age, men who could only fill the
Jobs for a, temporary period at the
most.
Can't Get Crews
AS far as getting permanent crews
10 i'll the jobs the hotel owners were
as bad of when Mayor LaGuardis
called of picketing as they we're the
first day of the strike.
For this reason detective agencies
and scab herding offices throughout
the city have intensified and ex-
tended their activities.
Agencies Supply Scabs
Among the strikebreaking agencies
that are busy supplying thugs and
StTikebreakers for the hotels are:
Washington Detective Agency,
$40 Seventh Ave, This agency sup
plies Thugs for the BiltmOre, Com
aodore and Ambassador.
Bergoff Agency, 2 Columbus
Circle, rupplies strikebreaking forces
for the Warwick, Plaza, Park Lane
and Savoy Plaza.
Pat EyeKenna Agency-alsO sup
plies forces for the Plaza and
Savoy Plaza.
Sherwood Detective Agency, 1440
Broadway -sInplies gangstels for
he Waldorf Astoria.
Industrial Railway Service Blu
reau, Abs Grand Central Terminal.
This agency supplies everything
direct TO the Hotel Mems Associa-
lion.
Then there il Weasel Duffy, with
his Office under his hat, who works
for the Hotel Astor.
Supplying strikebrsakers tOt the
perlnsylvanla Hotel is Benny Ep-
stein, rho had his Office under
Ills hat UP until a few days ago,
when he got desk rcem on Fifth
Ave.
On top Of this, Mir. Field, head o.
ne Anlalgamated Union. Mayor La.
Guarciia and NR.A. officials have
raaneuVered to get the workers bacl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
special 70 the Daily worker

MOSCOW, Feb. 20 CBy Cable). $500
The plans for the Palace Of the
soviets, drawn up in the project of
the architect Tofan, calling for the
construction Of the tallest building
in the world, have won final approval,
it was learned here today.
The preparatory work on the palace
has already been started, and begin
ming with the spring Of this year
work will be commenced on 8 large
scale.
The height OF the palace will reach
Ais meters 1881 fee). 1t will be
crowned with gigantic figure of
Lenin, to be about 80 meters (262
feet) high.
(The dispatch is unclear as to
whether the height of the figure of
Lenin will be included in, or added
to, the total height OF the structure.
In either case, however, the palace
will be far taller than the Empire
OGdLS bullOlIlB III INGH JOIhi DIV pre-
sent the highest in the world, which
is 1248 feet in height. With the
height of the Lenin figure added, the
building will be 1924 feet high. II
it is included in the AIS meters, the
building will reach the height Of 1851
feet).
The palace will have a gigantic
hall with 10000 seats, designed for
congresses, great gatherings, mass
theatrical performances, ETC., as well
as a small hall with 5000 seating
capacity, for conferences, solemn ses-
sions, and smaller theatrical perfor-
mances.
A colossal mural, a panorama Of
the revolution, will be located over
the great hall.
The Palace Of the SoTets will also
house several museums and libraries,
and a number Of cultural institutions.
The structure will constitute q ire
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Spokane Lumbermen
Foil HoodIums' Plan
To Break Up Meeting

SPOKANE. Wash, Feb. 20.-Using
as an excuse that leaf1et issued by
the National Lumber Workers Union
attacked the government by exposing
the NR.A., gang Of hoodlurns at
tempted to terrorize speakers and
6ele~"t0s who vent from Spokane to
Deer Park last week to attend a
meeting called to set up committees
TO demand relief for unemployed
In spite Of the attempted i1tinni-
dation the meeting was held. j.
Vanorum of the NL.W.U., exposed
the N.R.A. and the graft in the @.
WA. Over 100 lumber men were
present, many Of whom applied for
membership In the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Palace Of Souiets in Moscow
To Be Worlds TaLJest Building
Plans Gain Final Approval; Work Already Begun
On Structure Higher Than the Empire State

mendous monument to the victorious
struggle Of the proletariat for Com
munism and monument TO its
leader, Lenin, the creator of the
SovietS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21

teachers be scrapped. The workers,
most Of them parents Of school chill
dren, voted to support the teachers
delegation which will go to the Board
of Education Feb. %, to protest
against war propaganda in the
schools.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21

that sabotage has occurred in the
preparation and distribution of meat
and is pressing for an investigation
along this line.
Evening star., 1934-09-30

and anchoring them 300 feet at a westerly
point, and by short blocks force it back 10
its place. when 1t could be made secure
mo cracks are observable in the stone walls
but the moorngs have either given way or
are so weakened that every strong puff Of
wind makes it sway and lift from the stone
work Today the top of the spire moved
feet or more out of plumb the base of the
wood raising or more inches from the
masonry every time.
The line of DETECTION directly eastward
across Four and-a half street, and it was
feared II it should fall In that direction that
Mrs. Parker's house. the southeast corner
of -Four -and-a-half and c streets, would be
crushed. There were several thousand people
in the neighborhood in the course OF the day.
AT last accounts the spire was still in place."
GENERAL years ago the writer was informed
- that at that time 81 500 was spent IN
strengthening the tower which had to be cut
2 feet at the base so that it could be lowered
to set square again. At this time, it seems,
gigantic beams were also set in to strengthen it,
and subsequently lightning burned out two of
the bell wires and gas jet, and the neghbors
were continually alarmed lest i should fall on
their property and perhaps kill some one.
Evening star., 1934-09-30

fixed to knock out the screen to the bells in
order to give the wind a free passage through.
THE steeple is 230 feet high from the
ground about 100 feet being a tower Of Seneca
stone masonry, on top OF which is the spire,
130 feet high, of wood; in the latter portion
very heavy timbers were used which run down
some 40 feet inside the masonry work, besides
being otherwise secured with iron bars and
bolts.
During a heavy storm. July 4. 1874 this
steepe careened considerably. and it has since
remainded some inches out of perpendicular,
it being found impossible to straighten it
without taking down and rebuilding 1t entirely.
The chime bells, eight in number, are in
that portion of the structure just above the
stonework, and are many tons in weight.
Widdows the chimist, stuck by the steeple all
day. and occasionally would strike the bells
to assure himself that they were all right, and
the people that there was no danger and in
fact, there is not supposed to be unless the
wind rises again.
Inspector Plowman this morning ad-
dressed written notice to the trustees to
make this steepe secure; he gives no opinion
as to how it can be done, but in conversation
with a Star reporter he stated that it might
be brought to a perpendicular by means of
wire cables reaching from the windows Of the
steeple at as great an elevation as possible