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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02
Cleveland .Jobless
WinRent, RelietRise;
AllentOwnJo blessAct
Allentown Communist
Party Leads Fight
Against EvictiOns

ALLENTOWN, Pa, July L.
Aroused against new wave of evic-
tons, the workers of Allentown
massed at protest meeting We'd
nesday on the school grounds at
Fifth and Chew Sts., and marched
on the Court House. AS hundreds
of workers filed into the court
room, members of the landlords as
ISOLATION, who we're meeting here,
piled out the back door. A workers
meeting was held at which it was
unanimously decided not to brook
any evictions.
This militant demonstration was
the outcome of a series Of eviction
fights started by the members of
the Unemployed Leagues over the
opposition of some of the leaders.
Last week, when the workers of
the 14th Ward learned that one of
the workers was being evicted, they
Immediately massed at the house,
and under the leadership of Steve
Pukanez. a member of the Commu-
mist Party, and other unemployed
workers, stopped the eviction.
At this eviction Arthur Preis of
the American Workers Party, called
upon the workers to accept the
eviction policy of the relief oficials,
stating: IF the relief authorities
are willing to paw the rent. the
workers should not make an issue
about having the workers moved"
Seeing the fighting mood of the
workers, the leaders of the Unem-
ployed League finally decided to call
protest meeting.
In a leaf1et issued to the workers,
the Communist Party called upon
the workers to organize and fight
these evictions through mass action,
urging them to meet the threats
of the sheriff that if the Commu-
nists and Unemployed League men,
bers will not behave there will be
some cracked heads"
The workers were urged to build
the unemployed organizations and
to do away with the dues system
which will keep the unemployed
outside cat the last convention OF
the Pull, the leaders put through
a motion that each member is to
pay one cent day dues.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02
SKI. Strike Strong
Despite Thugs Intimidation

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. July l.
Despite professional thugs who
guard scabs going into and coming
out Of the plant, the ski. strike
continues, seriously Gripping pro-
duction, according to reports from
the Anti-Friction Bearing Workers
Union. Since many workers on
strike perform highly skilled work,
the Scabs have been unable to re-
place them.
The area about the plant at Front
and Erie continues to be an armed
camp with hundreds Of cops patrol
ling the area on foot, on horse, and
in motorcycles and police cars. Po-
lice infest trolley and subway and ell
stations for a considerable distance
from the plant. and chase any one
they recognize as striker, or SYM
pathizer.
The strikers have called a con-
ference for Monday night, at ken
sington Labor Lyceum, 2nd and
Cambria SITS, and have sent calls
to every labor and workers fraternal
and mass organizations to send
delegates to discuss plans for sup
porting the strike,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02

the parade resulted in "a
votes for the parade and AZ
against.
Despite this expression of SEN
timent the Frank x. Martel ma
chine succeeded in putting over
their motion to refer the matter
to referendum vote of the To-
Gals. The die-hard reactionaries,
full-time officials Of the building
trades unions, the machinist
union, etc, fought for a Labor
Day picnic as against the pro-
posal Of the parade. The newer
elements in the A. F. of L., dele
gates Of the auto workers locals,
etc, lined up solidly for the pa
rade,
Labor Day Demands
Spokesman for the Rank and
File Committee took the floor one
after the other for their proposal
that the parade be organized end
ing with demonstration in
Grand Circus Park; that all work.
ers' organizations be invited to
participate; that the slogans of
the day be: Against company
unions and NR.A. arbitration, for
the right to organize into unions
of the workers own choice;
against wage cuts and speed-up,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02
SIP. Leaders Give
Blessing To Jim
CrowO Teachers
Lefkowitz Surrenders to
White Chauvinism
i'm Convention

CHICAGO, I'll. = Socialist dele
gates to the American Federation
of Teachers Convention gave their
blessing to the system of segregs-
ton and discrimination against the
Negro teachers in the South Thurs
day.
The New York delegation, led by
Lefkowitz, member of Socialist
Party. introduced resolution call
ing for the blishment of one
union in each locality, to replace
the many that often exist side by
side. The resolution stated that no
race or color line should be drawn.
Southern delegates attacked the
resolution, claiming that if Negroes
were permitted in white union
locals, the organization would die.
Lefkowitz made a demagogic speech
in which he stated that he would
not do anything to hurt the organi-
zation and agreed to a feeble resolu-
ton advising the building of one
union, but leaving a loop-hole for
jim crowism by leaving the final
decision to local group on the basis
of its 'advisability'.
This capitulation to white chau-
vinism is typical of the actions of
the Socialists throughout this con-
vention. They have constantly talked
radical, and then, when the final
decision was to be made, supported
the most reactionary elements in
the convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02

the advent of the MA. employers
have gathered together in their
code authorities and resolved that
they are entitled to full return on
that larger or smaller share of their
capacity which under MIRA. rules
must lie idle" (The application of
the famous Roosevelt Noley- Tug
well theory that plenty for all is to
be secured by reducing the produc-
ton of necessities. - B. d. 1.-THE
overhead losses are charged to the
output end. This increase in prices
causes a reduction in demand, hence
further increase in price, and the
industry is forced downhill" eve
will not pause here longer than to
say that the learned professors
economics are too much simplified.
We are interested mainly in his
concluSion) the consumer is
forced to suffer further unemploy-
ment, or such a reduction in hours
as will not permit him to earn a
decent weeks pay
Answer With Terror
Unemployment increases not only
relatively but absolutely, relief is
spread out Simmer and thinner.
What is the answer of the author
tiles? The Roosevelt regime con-
tinues its criminal plan for restrict
ing production for the purpose of
raising prices of the necessities of
life. Employed and unemployed
workers who protest, workers and
intellectuals, farmers and ruined
middle class people-au who in one
way OF another adopt the Commu-
mist program for mass organization
and struggle for the right to work,
eat and live, are treated as GRIM
inals.
Leading spokesman Of the Roose-
welt regime like Professor Moley, its
hangers-on among the officials of
the American Federation of Labor
and it's unions like Green, Vol,
Berry, Tighe, Mcmahon, Lewis, Hill
man, etc. assail the Communist
Party as a criminal organization
and call, openly or covertly, for its
suppression.
Typical of the attitude of the
authorities is a recent incident re-
ported in the New York Times for
June q and already commented
upon editorially in the Daily
Worker. The headline of The
Time Story says:
New Tear Gas Tank Tested on
Police-O'Ryan Sees Six Husky
Men Made Helpless Instantly by
Anti Riot Weapon-Smoke Screen
Also Laid-Double Contained Car
ried on Back Held More Effective
Than Grenades Now Used"
The story continues:
THE exhibition took place on the
Department of Sanitation pier . i.
The new weapon operates from a
dual tank D.. It's developer, Will
lam Wallace, End, of the Duncan
Chemical Company, said it could
"clean out block full OF rioters in
a minute" -. THE new tanks In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02
Postpone Sympathy Strike
But Plan Big Parade

BUTTE, Mont. IF. P because 70
of the 80 unions affiliated with the
Silver Bow Trades and Labor Coun-
Gil refused to call out their mem
beTs. sympathy strike with the
striking Butte miners has been
postponed However. all unions
agreed to hold a monster labor
parade Of $1,000 marchers on July
Q, to show the workers solidarity
with the strikers.
p w. Chappell of the U. S. De-
partment of Labor and Federal
Mediator R. G. jacobson, are at
tempting to arrange another con-
ference between the Anaconda
Copper Mining Co. and the 5000
striking miners.
Several clerks and drivers who
refused to deliver goods to the home
Of Supt. Carrigan of the Anaconda
Company, were fired by the Mon
tana Hardware Co., an Anaconda
subsidiary, and have been replaced.
1t is expected that 800 clerks and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02
!" That's the Mayors an

ployed would certainly resent being
gassed by a sweatshop product.
The Nation, The New Leader, The
New Republic and the New York
Post should bring this matter to the
attention of President Roosevelt at
once. Furthermore, we hope that
they will aid the struggles of the
unemployed by demanding also that
there shall be competitive bidding
by all firms wishing to supply this
scientific protection against hungry
workers. This would prevent the
unemployed being irritated addi-
tionally by any suspicion of graft.
Paul Blanshard should be called
upon by these publications to look
into this matter at once. 1t is an
issue that is right down his alley.
But another thought occurs to us.
Let it never be said that Commu-
nists are averse to measures Of
municipal economy. Why not make
the gas out of the human garbage
the LaGuardia administration has
gathered around itself? Why not
start with LaGuardia himself and
Police Commissioner Organ?
We are convinced that if they
were reduced by the proper chemical
process they would produce a par
ticularly nauseating form of gas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02
Blacklist Gets Blue
Eagles Stamp of
Approval

and no rights for the union of the
strikers; 90 Part time work with
out corresponding increase in pay;
(6) Blacklist of active strikers
through violence" or misconduct
clauses.
These principles are applied by
the n. r. A. in the steel. auto.
longshore and other settlements.
Econuomic Demands Lost
THE economic demands Of the
l Real Silk strikers we're Cd Rec
ignition of the Federation of
Hosiery Workers; co Increase Of
wages to union scale; CD Abolition
of the bonus and penalty system.
The vicious settlement" of the
N. R. A., backed by the A. F. of L.
officials, does not grant single one
of these demands.
Under the agreement only about
half of the strikers have any
chance of getting their jobs back.
Scabs are not to be fired. They are
recognized, in fact, by the agree
ment. There is no appeal, except
TO the company union Ito the en-
ployer, in other Words.
The Communist Party of Indian
apolis had warned against the sell
out being prepared by the A. F. OF
L. officials and the N. R. A. Labor
Board. The prediction of the Com
munist Party was fully carried out
by events.
The N. r. A. broke the Real Silk
strike, and. with the connivance Of
the A, F. of L. officials, ROBBED the
strikers of their demands and
forced the company union over on
the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02
200 Strike Penna. Work
Relief Job

LEBANON. About 200 relief
workers, employed at the Pennsyl-
vania military reservation at In
diantown Gap, struck Thursday, de-
manding 30 hours weekly work at
guaranteed minimum wages of SIS
weekly, time and a half for over
time; free transportation to and
from work and other demands.
The men worked seven hours
daily pounding stone with sledge-
hammers, in two shifts-from am.
to noon, and from noon to pm.
without stop. In order to be on time
the workers, most of whom live in
Lebanon, we're forced to arise at 3
am, and pay Is cents transporta-
ton. Back pay for four weeks is due
most of the men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02
Furniture Workers
Strike in Albany:
Form Union Local
Demand Union Scale
and Time Work for
All Workers

ALBANY, N, Y. July THE
workers of the Peerless Upholstery
Co., 450 North Pearl St, Albany.
N. Y employing over 100 workers,
which is q subsidiary Boston shop
here, declared a strike at a meet
ing held on Wednesday, June o.
Joe Kiss, National Secretary of
the union, addressed the workers,
bringing forward the militant policy
of the union, which today counts
10000 members nationally. The
workers voted for an immediate
formation Of the local, which is
given Charter No. 102 by the ma
tional office of the National Furni-
ture Workers Industrial Union.
The workers, upon deciding to
form a militant 20-hour picket line
around the Peerless Shop of Al
bany, have also sent an urgent ap-
peal to the workers of the Peerless
Shop of Boston, asking them to join
in a stoppage in support of their
heroic struggle for bread and butter.
me SCrlKeTS auOpIeu Inc IOllOW-
ing militant main demands:
l. Time work for all workers.
2. Wage scale for mechanics S1.10,
section workers Sc cents, section
helpers 50 cents an hour, and for
all frame makers and girl stitch
ers flat increase of 80 per cent.
3. Forty hour working week, five
days per week. d. Recognition of
the National Furniture Workers
Industrial Union Local No. 102 of
Albany, n. Y. 5. Written agree
ment to be signed ending on Aug.
81, 1885.
Immediate financial and moral
help is requested from all locals OF
the union. Funds shall be sent to
1856 South Pearl ST., Albany, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02
Jail E. st. Louis Worker
AS 300 Stop Eviction

EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.,, July l.
Ray Wycoff, Communist Party
member and Daily Worker agent,
was brutally beaten by police and
arrested after 300 workers under his
leadership had successfully halted
an eviction.
Wycotf is being held under $500
bail on charges of "inciting to riot
and interfering with police" Dur
ing the tussle with the cops who
we're trying to remove furniture, a
deputy constable had been beaten.
Workers are being urged to send
protests to Justice Young, State At
torney Ferbeck and Chief of Police
Lauman, all of East st. Louis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02
Police Smash Philadelphia
Jobless' Picket Line

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. = Police
broke up mass picket line of I'M
employed workers here who were
picketing the County Relief Board
Offices at 1450 Cherry ST., and ar
rested an unemployed Negro, who
was leading the line.
The workers on the picket line,
under the leadership of the Unem-
ployment Council, demanded in
creased relief in cash, relief jobs at
trade union wages, in no case less
than $18 weekly, clothing, medical
care, ETC., and passage of the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02
l,5OO Pack Cleveland
City Council; Fight
Discrimination

CLEVELAND, Ohio, July -
Fifteen hundred workers led by
Unemployed Councils packed all
available space in the City Council
chambers and forced the City Coun-
Gil to adopt resolutions for payment
of cash rent for unemployed work
ers and to give back all relief cuts
since March.
Police tried to attack Onda, the
spokesman for the Unemployment
Councils but were prevented by
workers.
The City Council broke into dis
order for an hour, trying one man
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02

Their shop steward called on the
superintendent Of production to
state the company's position on
such scab work. The superintendent
and the foreman of the tool room
tried desperately to persuade the
men to work, saying the whole
thing was a mistake.
This action of the tool makers,
members of the Radio and Metal
Workers Industrial Union, is a true
working class expression of soli-
darity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02
Camden Workers Refuse to
Handle Scab Materials

CAMDEN, N. j., July 1.-Tool
makers in the R.CA,-Victor plant
refused to handle dies with ski.
ball bearings in them, because
SKI. workers are on strike for
union recognition and wage in
creaseS since March.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02
DetrOitRank and File
for Militant Demands
On Labor Day March
Marie Machine In A. F. of L. Puts Over Picnic
Delegates Demand Support of Working
Class Platform In Elections
Bv NAT GANELY

DETROIT, Mch.-The proposal Of the Rank and File
Committee for turning Labor Day into day of parading and
demonstrating against centralized capital received strong
support at the special meeting of the Detroit Federation OF
Labor held June 20 test vote taken the question Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02

taken back. 1t declares:
THE Employees Mutual Benefit
Association shall pass promptly
on all applications for employ
ment made individually or as a
group. Any enpIoye who has not
been accepted shall have the
right to appeal to the National
Labor Board. The Z. M. B. A.
shall make decisions on all appli-
cations for employment not later
than June 9, 1894"
This clause places the strikers
at the mercy Of the company union,
The third clause provides for
blacklisting of the most active strik-
ers, and provides for sharing the
work" not on the basis of shorter
hours and higher pay but on the
basis of part time work at the same
wage rates, which means wage
cut.
THIS clause states, Those ac-
cepted for unemployment
shall be re-instated in their
former jobs as promptly as work
is available and shall share the
work among themselves until full
time employment is available.
Strikers who committed acts of
violence shall not be eligible for
unemployment" Under the Ma
tional Labor Board procedure, If
a picket is fined or sentenced in
court, he is guilty of "acts of
violence" and subject to black
list. Under this clause, the COM
pany union is to decide who is
guilty OF acts OF violence. or who
shall be bIacklisted. This is
union smashing clause.
The fourth clause provides for a
preferential list" CT those strikers
rot taken back. who shall get the
first available Jobs.
Hosiery Union Gets No Rights
The fifth clause makes even
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02

additional unemployed news will
he found on page a..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02
BY CARL REEVE

BY CARL REEVE
THE settlement" of the Real Silk
l Hosiery Mills strike at Indian
apolis, Ind, by the N. R. A. Labor
Board. cooperating with the en-
ployers and the A. F. Of L. officials,
is a classic example of strike
breaking on the part of the Roose-
welt government. This strike had
lasted for seven weeks, with the
most militant mass picketing in the
face of the orders of the leaders of
the American Federation of Hosiery
workers CA. F. of Id.
Company Union Recognized
The workers were not defeated,
they won on the picket lines, con-
Quoting Ineffective strike. So diff
f1cult was it for the A. F. of L.
leaders to drive them back to work,
that the N. R. A. settlement was
finally passed, after days of bully
ing and cajoling, only by vote of
512 to 212.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02

euver after another Every time the
council would try to meet, the work
ers demanded action on their de-
mands and prevented the council
from proceeding. Finally the rules
we're suspended and the resolution
on cash rent and relief cuts passed.
The workers left city hall singing
Solidarity" to meeting outside
where plans were made to continue
the fight for cash relief, endorse
ment of the Workers Bill, to make
1t a criminal ofTense to discriminate
against Negroes on relief, public
places and jobs.
1900 Still Out
Nearly 200 relief workers are on
strike in Des Moines against made
uuate relief. The striking workers
are demanding a 24-hour work
week for all unemployed. Special
demands for additional relief are
made for families of more than six.
Single workers are to receive at
least IL hours work week.
The City Council has been forced
to withhold all city supervision on
relief work projects until the "a
hour week has been granted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02
How the N r. A. agreement Robbed The Real Silk Workers

clearer the fact that only the COM
pany union is recognized, and has.
all the say inside the mill. 1t says,
IF any group of employees wishes
TO present any matter to the e. M.
B. A. (tte company union) Board
through the groups authorized
representatives they may do so
when such representatives are &C
companied by the duly elected de-
partment representative of the E.
NJ B, A. The representatives of
the group will furnish the names of
those requesting their appearance
and the E. M. B. A. Board will give
a hearing upon reasonable notice"
This clause definitely robs the
workers of all right of representa-
ton through their own union (the
Federation of Hosiery Workers. and
of any right to bring up grievances
except through the company union.
The last clause states, ANY ques-
ton arising out Of this agreement
shall be referred to the National
Labor Board for Interpretation and
settlement. The decision Of the
National Labor Board shall be final
and binding"
The unicn which conducted the
strike is robbed OF the right to
strike and is robbed Of ali rights
by this yellow dog agreement,
which was signed by the Ameri-
can Federation of Hosiery Work
ers officials.
Principles of n. Il. A.
THIS agreement is not exceptional
but em3odies all the main prin-
ciples on which the N r. A. Labor
Board seeks to end all strikes. These
principles are Cd Denial Of the
economic demands of the strikers;
90 Taking from the workers the
right to strike through compulsory
arbitration: 90 Recognition of the
company union; t4) no recognition
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02

500 members of the teamsters
union will go out in protest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02
Put Strikers at Mercy
of Company
Union

Editors Note:-This is the sec
ond of series of articles on the
recent decisions of the N. r. A.
against the workers, The first ar
ticle told how the N. r. A. Labor
Board broke the strike Of the Far
riman, Tenn, textile workers,
Smyrna times., 1934-07-12
INSTITUTE AT
w. 1. OPENS
Delmarva Summer Institute
Holding Daily Sessions
Until July 18th
PROGRAM is ARRANGED

The Delmarva Summer Institute
for Youth, which is being attended
by young people from Delaware,
Maryland, and Virginia, opened at
the Wesley Collegiate Institute,
Dover, on Saturday afternoon July
the 7th. Daily sessions with a
wide variety of program features
continue through Sunday noon, July
18th. The Institute is a part of
the Youth Program directed by the
Board of Christian Education of
the Wilmington Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. The
program includes daily classes for
instruction, chapel services, recre-
alton and special evening pro-
grams. Special programs have
been arranged to stress temper
ance, missions, stewardship, and
other important parts of the total
church program The Adult ad-
ministrative staff include the Rev.
w Vaughan Moore, Dean, the Rev.
George E. Sterling, Business Man
ager, and Miss MYolande Thomas,
Treasurer. The courses and facuI-
ty include: Adventures in the Old
Testament''-Dr William Mines
bit, pastor of Methodist Episcopal
Church, Hurlock, Md. THE ChaI-
lenge of the Beautiful DIR. F. NJ.
Conover, Inter-Church Bureau of
Architecture, New York City. THE
Religious Use of Dramatization"
Miss Pauline Albertson, Eastern
Shore Director of the Maryland
Delaware Council of Religious Ed
ucation, and Mrs. James H. Bishop,
Dover. "World Peace Through
World Friendship DR.. Alvin c.
Goddard, pastor McCabe Memorial
Church, Wilmington THE Chal-
lenge of Better Worship Services
Prof James H. Bishop, Dover.