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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-23

ers' Association this week again
called for anti-strike regulations in
the reorganized Y. R. A.
The employers in all basic in
dustries launched into the anti
strike campaign. George Ehrn-
strom, Jr., the resident editor Of
Iron Age, organ Of the steel mag
mates, declared in the October II
issue that the federal government
would "do well to restrict the &C
tivities of national unions" and ar
gued for more support to the COM
pany unions. He continued, why not
benefit further from the British ex-
ample by studying the British Trade
Disputes and Trade Unions Act of
1927" This act, he declared, would
stop general and sympathetic
strikes and restrict unions, "in any
attempts to coerce persons or
groups not parties to controversy"
He asks, doesn't self-government
imply the right of management to
deal with employees without the in
reference of extraneous labor agen-
cies?"
The October Is issue of Iron Age
continues the campaign to outlaw
strikes in a leading article advocat-
ing Emulation Of British Labor
Policy"
On November S, Iron Age, in an
editorial, again proposes anti-strike
legislation similar to the British
anti-strike act. Steel, organ of the
steel manufacturers, is active in
this campaign, and the National
Manufacturers Association has cir
cularized its members with copies
of the British anti-strike act which
followed the 1927 British general
strike. Labor Research Associa-
tion.)
Earlier, the textile manufacturers
followed up Roosevelt's no strike
speech with concrete proposals for
anti-strike legislation. The Ameri-
can Cotton Manufacturers Associa-
ton, meeting in Greenville S. c., in
October, passed resolutions against
mass picketing, against flying
squadrons, against sympathetic
strikes, and for a united front of
nothern and southern manufacture
ers against the trade unions. This
was followed up by a joint Ten
point program" of the American
Cotton Manufacturers and the Ma
tional Association of Cotton Manu-
facturers, issued at the end of Octo-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-23

the Amalgamated Association TO
prove that the Carnegie Steel Com
pany carries on commercial activity
of an interstate character.
The impression IS being given out
by the Steel Board and Amslga-
mated leaders that, by combining it,
self to the petitions Of workers en-
ployed by companies carrying on
business of an admittedly interstate
character, the Board will stand in
less danger Of being proven @un-
constitutional by the legal experts
of the steel trust.
The elections in question wers
requested by employees of the Car
negie Steel Company, U. s. Steel
subsidiary, in both the Mcdonald,
Ohio and Duquesne, Pa. plants.
AS one means of inducing the
steel workers to mark time while
the board goes through the involved
and lengthy process Of holding
hearings and forever weighing tes-
timony, the Amalgamated leaders
are utilizing Mrs. Cornelia Bryce
Pinchot to make radical sounds for
the workers.
Yesterday she spoke at a mass
meeting called by the Braddock
lodge of the A. A. The burden Of
her speech was approximately the
same as that of other of her adj
dresses to steel workers-that the
big money interests Of Wall
Street have captured the NRA.,
and the only way steel or other or
ganized workers can remedy their
lot is by obtaining better represen-
tation on the code authorities Of
the National Recovery Administ-a-
ton.
There is little doubt but what
Mrs. Pinchot's recommendation is
one of the obiectives of Mike Tighe
and Co., to sit with employers rep
resentatives on code bodies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-23
5000 .JObless
Storm Racine
Court House
Hug Demonstration
Protests Slash
in Relief

RACINE, Wis, Nov. 22.-Smash-
ing through every effort by REFORM
ist organizations to keep them from
the streets, 5000 workers, men,
women, and children, marched
through the streets here Monday,
packed the county court house and
its corridors, and assembled at the
outside, demanding that the county
board Of supervisors Immediately
rescind the so per cent relief cut
The workers elected chairman,
Samuel Herman, of the Action Com
mittee, who was selected by the
workers as their spokesman, was
seized by the police, but was imme-
diately freed when the workers
shouted their demands for his free
dom.
The Board of Supervisors was to
have met at 1870 Monday after
noon, but because of the tremen-
douS outpouring of the enraged job
less, they Immediately voted adj
journment until a later date.
When the supervisors failed to
meet, the workers spontaneously
took the streets, circled the court
house in a militant showing of their
mass strength; marched on and
circled the relief department; again
marched through the town; and
held tremendous mass meeting be-
fore local bank.
Here the police and fire depart
ment were modified; but sensing
the militancy of the workers, dared
not interfere with the meeting or
attack any of the workers.
Faced with actual slow starvation
on the reduced relief budgets, hun
dreds Of the enraged workers raised
their voices demanding immediate
and direct action to win the relief
necessary for their starving wives
and children. Side by side with
their husbands and brothers, women
present expressed their readiness to
fight for their elemental relief
needs.
While Mondays outpouring of the
unemployed was one of a series of
ever growing mass actions by the
jobleSs here, preparations are being
Speeded for continuous and sus-
tanned struggle until the workers
relief demands for sufficient aid are
won.
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Federal Government and Employers Speed AntSke Maneuoe
Intensity Drioe Unions and Workers. Lpng Standards

code. The Reynolds company plant
at Winston-Salem is notorious fol
low wages and horrible working
conditions. Following Williams, g
whole series of direct representa-
tives of big business were brought
into key positions in the N. R. A.
The principal aims of the
Roosevelt government in its ere
organization of the N. r. A." ana
its legislative program for the
coming session of Congress are:
u To uphold and protect the
profit system and to maintain and
increase the profits of the en-
ployers.
p To outlaw strikes and picket
ing and to declare them illegal.
81 To establish the company
union and smash the power of the
real trade unions by tieing the
A. F. Of L. bureaucracy more
firmly up with the strikebreaking
N. r. A. apparatus.
A. To reduce the wage stand
ards of the workers, including
the wage level of the skilled work
ers.
81 To defeat the attempt of the
workers to secure the thirty hour
week without decreases in week
ly wages.
81 To strengthen monopolies
and sharpen the direct attacks on
the workers organizations
through increase in terror,
through taking away from the
workers their elementary rights;
in other words, increased fascist
measures against the workers, in
Guiding more direct government
control of trade unions.
y Cutting down on relief to the
unemployed, under the slogan of
balancing the budget" Denial of
real unemployment insurance.
The section of President Roose.
velt's speech which was most high.
ly praised by the employers de-
clared, I'VE count, in the future
as in the past, on the driving powel
of individual initiative and the in.
centive of fair private profit
strengthened with the acceptance
of those obligations to the public
interest which rest upon us all"
The Bankers Association Conven.
ton, in which the federal govern.
Gent officials played a prominent
part, declared, of this statement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-23

THE United States government is
l putting into effect new formu-
las" with which to tighten up and
extend its anti-labor drive, which
went into full swing Immediately
after the election campaign. The
sharpening of the attacks on the
working class were heralded in the
mo strike" truce speech of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, delivered over the
radio on September 30.
On October %, at the meeting of
the American Bankers Association
Convention, it was already apparent
that the pressure of big business
and banking for a faster tempo in
putting through the anti-labor pro-
gram would meet with no objections
from the Roosevelt government.
Since that time, the Chamber of
Commerce, the Manufacturers As
sociation and the code authorities
in the basic industries have gone
ahead full swing to push through
these anti-labor measures. The
meeting of American manufacture
ers, called in New York for Deem
Der and by the National Associ-
alton Of Manufacturers, following
their own convention, to draft rec
concentrations for recovery" has as
its purpose the better organization
of the campaign against the work.
ing class and its organizations.
Bankers and manufacturers as
sociations have already taken a
more open and direct hand in the
conduct of the government and its
N. R. A. machinery. The demagogy
necessary until the election was
over, the emphasis on the rights
of labor" to organize and to bar
gain collectively" as embodied in
section seven A, is being showed into
the background. The anti-labor
character of the government, the
fact that the government is the
weapon of the employers, is more
brazenly and openly revealed.
1t was to speed up this anti
labor drive that the N. R. A. was
'reorganized." The placing of s..
Clay Williams, a director of the
Reynolds Tobacco Co., as chairman
of the new Industrial Recovery
Board, was a clear indication of the
purposes of the N. r. A. Williams
is fit for the job. He imposed slave
conditions on the tobacco workers
and blocked any sort of tobacco
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-23

HOAhCAo anu ObClt4 bllC A1OM1LlB u4Ah
and file movement in the Anal
gamated Association Of Iron and
Steel Workers "a. F. of L.
The truce" being concocted in
these secret negotiations would in
clude a form of recognition" in
which the steel corporations would
sign no contract, and would permit
the company unions freedom of
operation. The reported prelim-
mary rejection" by Green Of these
proposals, put forward by the United
States Steel Corporation, and backed
by the government, is seen as an
attempt to save Green's face before
the steel workers and maneuver for
an acceptance Of the truce" in the
near future.
Workers Dissatisfied
The steel workers are expressing
great dissatisfaction with the fact
that the Steel Labor Board, set up
when Green and Roosevelt pre-
vented the strike of the steel work
ers last summer, has done absolutely
nothing regarding the steel workers
grievances. Under the Steel Board,
the company unions are stronger
than ever, workers are fired right
and left, terrorization by private
police, as in the Jones and Laugh
lin, and by regular police, is ram
pant. Speedup has increased and
the steel workers lost all their de-
mands, including wage demands.
The government and the steel
corporations are afraid of q steel
strike in the spring. They are espe-
cially apprehensive because of the
growth Of the rank and file move
ment m the A. F. Of L. union.
The New York Times yesterday
said, Pressure from administration
quarters was brought to bear on the
union to accept the terms of the
proposal made by the steel corpora
ton on the ground that they meant
recognition in the general sense of
that term" 1t was reported that
Green and Michael Tighe, president
Of the A. A., have already agreed
to compulsory arbitration, provided
the steel companies also agree in
advance to abide by the arbitration
boards terms.
Follow Roosevelt Op6n Shop Policy
ne attempts of the steel corpora
lions and the federal government,
which are given the full coopera-
ton Of Green and Tighe, to pre-
vent union recognition and to main
tain the supremacy of the COM
pany union, are in line with the
open shop policy of the Roosevelt
administration, as announced in
Donald Richberg's speech of this
week. Richberg, head of the N. R..
A, declared that minorities (mean-
ing the company unions) and lin
dividuals" must decide for them
selves" on representation. His speech
was an anti-union speech.
The negotiations for a steel
truce" which are said to have
broken down." will undoubtedly be
resumed. Green, who at the A. F..
of L. Convention demagogically
called for organization of the I'M
organized steel workers, is embar-
raised by the militancy of the rank
and file, and needs more time for
maneuvering against them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-23
CHICAGO TO HOLD BAZAAR

CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. %. - The
Chicago District of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense will hold a
three-day bazaar in the Peoples
Auditorium, 2257 West Chicago Ave,
on Dec. IA, Is and 16. The organiza-
ton has asked all other working
class organizations not to arrange
any public events for these days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-23
.TObless Push
Fight Against
Cangsterisnn
East St. Louis Relic f
Association Members
Back Struggle

EAST ST. LOUIS, H., Nov. 22.-
The unsuccessful attempts to expel
the Communists and militant mem
bers has forced the Edgar Clause
leadership in Local OF the Federal
and State Aid Association to try
new tactics in satisfying the relief
administrators desire to GUST the
militant elements. This new method
is the old gangster tactic Of the
American Federation of Labor Of
ficialdom-slugging and intimida-
ton. 1t has been learned from re-
liable sources that the Police De-
partment would close its eyes "if
something should happen to the
Communists in the Association"
With this set-up, the stage was
all set at the last meeting for the
gang" One of the hoodlums, Peg
Woods, attempted to involve Ray
Wycoff, a militant worker and
member of the Communist Party,
into an argument. When this failed,
he assaulted Wycoff Another thug,
a scab-herder in the Aluminium Ore
Strike, grabbed Wycoff. Rank and
file workers came to his assistance
and forced the thugs to retreat,
threatening to get" Wycoff after
the meeting.
The rank and file must unite
their forces and clear the path for
a determined struggle against the
maneuvers of the relief administra-
ton to put over forced labor, smash
the planned budget system which
limits relief ticket purchases to So
called staple commodities, and win
adequate relief.
Only militant action at the relief
stations and the outpouring of thou
sands on the streets in the demon
stration here Saturday will win ade-
quate Winter relief and for in
creased cash relief and the enact
ment of the Workers Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-23
Packing House Workers Fired

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill, Nov 22.-
Four hundred packing house work
ers from Swifts, Armours and
Hunters packing plants here have
been laid off in the past three
weeks. They have been promised
their jobs back if the government
gives the packing plants another
batch of cattle and pigs to slaughter
and prepare.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-23
Big Lay-off Threatened

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill, Nov. e.
The workers of the General Cast
ings Corporation Commonwealth
Plant have received unofficial in
formation that the plant will soon
close down for two weeks. About
$500 workers are now employed
there.
During the past month about 500
workers have been laid off in this
plant.
The owners declare that a big
order is awaiting, and that the
shutdown is necessary for the in
stallation of new machinery, which
in reality means a permanent lay
off for hundreds and speed-up for
those who are retained.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-23
STEEL LABOR BOARD
DODCES DECISION
IN ELECTIONDISPUTE
Asks for Additional, UnimportantT Testimony After
6-Week Hearing in Pittsburgh-Mrs. Pinchot
Aids Whitewashing of Carnegie Steel

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov 22.-Following one of the
crudes pieces of embarrassing yet done by Roosevelt
board in the hearing of intimidation complaints against
Jones and Laughn Steel Corporation last week in Pitts
burgh the National Steel Labor Relations Board has asked
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-23
COMPANY UNION
WOULD BE LET IN
BY AGREEMENT
Green and Tighe Reported to Have Accepted
Clause for Compulsory Arbitration in Secret
Negotiations in Washington

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 22--The federal govern
ment the steel corporations and William Green, head of
the American Federation of Labor in conferences here
attempting fost upon the steel workers truce which
would head off the growing strike sentiment among the steel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-23
WHAT'S ON

RATES: 35e for lines on weekdays.
Friday and Saturday SOC. Money must
accompany notices.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-23
Chicago, III.

Chicago, I'LL.
First Annual Dance given by Painters
Br. 565 Two. Saturday, Dec. 8 at
Mirror Hall, 1856 N Western Ave.
Adm. Csc in adv, 35c at door.
Ten Theatre Groups in action. Second
Midwest Festival Of League OF Work
ers Theatre. Performances by Gary,
Tri-Cities, Milwaukee and Chicago
Groups. Peoples Auditorium, 1857 W.
Chicago Ave. Friday, Nov. % at 9
pm. Adm. 35c.
Debate: Can the Negro Achieve
Economic and Social Freedom Under
Capitalism" Speakers, Herbert New
ton, TU.UL.. and Euclid L. Taylor,
Director National Bar Association,
Pen and Hammer, 20 E. Ontario ST.,
Sunday Nov IS pm Adm l5c
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-23
Los Angeles
Car Men Plan
For Strike

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22.-Unless
the Los Angeles Railway Corpora
ton agrees to submit demands of
the Analgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway En-
ployees to arbitration, strike will
be called involving 1850 street car
and motor coach workers
This was the ultimatum of union
officials who we're called by DR..
Towne Nylander, chairman of the
Los Angeles regional labor board,
The union is advancing the de-
mand of an eight-hour day and a
siX-day week, which, according to
the union, would involve an addi-
tional expenditure of not more than
100000 annually by the company.
With characteristic propaganda, the
company countered with the dec
laration that such demands would
cost $1,500,000 yearly and the i'm
preston is already being created by
the capitalist press that meeting of
such demands would inevitably lead
to increased fares.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22.-Follow-
ing closely on the heels of the
threatened strike of employees of
the Los Angeles Railway, came the
announcement that employees of
the Pacific Electric were also plan
ming to walk out if their demands
are not yet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-23
Philadelphia, Pa.

Oakley johnson speaks on "Educa-
ton and the World Crisis" Workers
School Forum, 900 Chestnut ST., 8
pm. this Friday. Adm. 25c. Unen-
ployed loc.
Jubilee Concert Of 20 years of pro-
letarisn musical development OF
the celebrated proletarian composer,
Comrade Jacob Schaefer, Friday, Nov.
20 at Mercantile Hall, Broad and
Master Streets. KEN Elmer Schpan"
viii be performed. Tickets 40c, at
3l6 washington Square Bldg, It'll
and Chestnut SITS.
David Plat, National Secretary. Film
& Photo League. will address open
membership meeting Of Philadelphia
F. g. P. L. on 1.-THE Progress Of the
Workers Film Movement" Sunday,
Nov. IS, pm. at 1905 walnut st.
Followed by showing Of several news
reels. Adm. free
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-23
AFFAIRS FOR THE
DAILY WORKER

Philadelphia, Pa.
Thanksgiving Eve Dance, Wed, Nov.
2s at State Dance Hall, Goth and
Market SITS. Good Dance Orchestra.
Come in costume. Prizes for best
costumes.
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Thanksgiving Eve Dance, Wed, Nov
2s at State Dance Hall, 10th and
Market SITS. Good Dance Orchestra.
Come in costume. Prizes for best
costumes.
Chicago, I'LL.
Gala Dance and Entertainment, Sat-
urday, Nov. az. workers Lyceum,
2T3S Hirsch St. Auspices Wiggini
Br. Y.cL. 8 and OPP. 512.
Gala Affair and Dance given by Rus
sian Organizations on Saturday, Nov.
"a at Douglas Auditorium, Kedzie and
Ogden AYES.
Affair given by Unit 3o2 and 800 at
2sl7 Clifton Park Ave, Saturday,
Nov. Gath. Refreshments, dancing.
Dance given by Sec. II CP. Stock
yard Section, Sunday, Nov. rs, at
Sa2 e. 43rd st., pm. Adm. 15c.
Affair given by Russian Organiza-
lions, Saturday, Nov. "a at Peoples
Auditorium.
Newark, N. J.
House Party given by TWO Br 512
at HOO SO. Grove st., Irvington. Sun
day, Nov. rs at pm. Real turkey
dinner will be served. Adm. Csc.
House Party at home OF Estelle Hof-
Concert and entertainment, Sunday,
Nov. is at 162 Lincoln PL, Garfield.
Concert and Entertainment given by
Passaic Unit, Saturday Dec. l at
Maciacs Hall, 40 Third ST., Passaic.
Adm. zoe in advance; 25c at door.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Big Affair. Musical Program, Good
Food, Ed Hamilton, Speaker. Wed,
Nov 20, workers School, Elm and
Opera Place. $3.50 pm.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.
An evening of entertainment given
by Unit 1902, Sat, Nov. 20, $50 pm.
at 2342 8. 9th st.
Buffalo, N. Y.
Daily Worker Dance, Friday, Dec. 7
at 7so Main Ct Adm. Csc.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Bngo Party, Friday. Nov 23, pm.
at International Labor Defense Hall,
522 Court Place. Ausp.: Workers
School Comm. and Fifth Ward Unit 2
CP.
Rochester, ". Y.
Pen g. Hammer, second Of its parties,
Sunday, Nov. as, pm. at workers
Center, 443 Ormond st. Refreshments,
entertainment, dancing, dramatics.
Adm. 1oc.
Red Press Mite, Saturday, Dec. l. at
7:30 pm. Workers CeSter, 443 Or
mond st. Ausp.: Unit C.P. Adm 1oc
incl. refreshments. Good program.
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Boston, Mass.

First Film showing of Ernst Thael-
mann, Fighter Against Fascism," Sat.
Nov. "a at Lorimer Hall, fremont
Temple Bldg, SO fremont st. -Four
shows: 2 p.m.-4 p.m.-7 p.m.-9 pm.
Afternoon Csc Ewes 3Sc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-23
PhiJadeLDhiu, Pa.

Mass meeting in defense OF the
Scottsboro boys. Ruby Bates. main
speaker, Saturday, Dec. /, at 2456
N. 3oth st. Adm. I5c
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Boston. Mass.

scottsboro Protest Mass Meeting,
Friday, Nov. %, pm. New Inter-
national Hall, AZ Wenonah St, Rox-
bury. Adm. free. Ausp.: John Reed
Br LID
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DETROIT. MICH.

DETROIT, MICH.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06
BEER CURFEW
CASE DROPPED
Police Must Get Evidence
of Liquor Served,
Official Rules.

Policemen making arrests under
the city'S new l a. m. drinking cur
few law must follow the old prohi-
bitiOn technique of Selling a sample
of the alcoholic beverage being sold
after l and must bring it into the
city chemist for confirmation of its
alcoholic content before the case
gets into court.
This was announced by Jack LOf-
tus, deputy city prosecutor, as he
moved in municipal court, after
comforting with City Prosecutor
Herbert Spencer, to dismiss cur
few violation charges against Fred
Iozzo, proprietor Of the Garden of
Italy, downtown eating and drink
ing place.
Iozzo, who, police testified, had to
be dragged to the patrol wagon,
was fined $25 and costs, however, for
resisting an officer. He was prose-
cuted on this charge by Louis Wei
land, deputy city prosecutor.
The arrest was made by Sergeant
Ed Kruse, whose squad made the
now famous test arrest" of Mike
Hanrahan, Penhoff grille proprietor,
for a blythe drink sale.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06
Indiana in Brief
By Times Special


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