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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27

plays a sparkling Of ball.
 (But Blondy understand it all).
 Twas only yesterday or so it seems . ,
 We beat the best of all the local teams u ~ ,
 when Little Men,
 Life apart
 With Blondy set in seeking baseball fame
 he sporting-press immortalized
 often wonder in m, my , lonely ely, nights s1nn,u
 the cty's lights
 Among worlds forgotten and unknowns In a sobr I often wonder
 If Bondy would recall to mind a chum - .
 And with him of what wed a each become
 breaks tough LIT md es slories ese'G 3Gw-
 NO. 60131 WELFARE ISLAND. with Jackie Brown Manchester England pound champonship Jackie amateur boxer named Louis n who testified at the trial that RoMn GA barsted auid is bucks) Jackie right for biting off his ear If Marteo suffered similar treat the teeth of a fighter named Bull Anderson.
 MEDAL MADE compressed being struck off Rockingham Park Race Track salem N H. It is a well known when horses led from burning stable rush back into when they the When the panicy thoroughbreds had stalls Rocingham they started to rush back to the burIap the Conf and seeing the wild race direction waving the bag wildly undeoot The worked for the herd turned and Conf and planted squareiy on his Frances The papers played she Gons heros in picture However they did not explain how ne T bat % the Conf was on way scheduled that evening to make deal with the 01y |" ' Copyright 1884, syndicatel
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Ten Years Ago To-day-Lucien E. Williams, former Yale tennis star, advanced in the Seabright tennis singles by defeating Harvey Snodgrass of California.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27
Welfare Island De ProfundiS
By DAN PARKER
BASEBALL RENDEZVOUS

herewith naved in Lynn Mass with Bondy Ryan O
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27
DO YOU REMEMBER

One Year Ago To-day-Dizzy Dean and Jimmy Wilson of the St Louis Cards set two modern rec- ords when Dean struck out IT men and Wilson made IS putouts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27
PHILADELPHIA IN
Score by innings:- .00O O2O 1OO-3

Wilson batted for Collins in 9th.
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Watkins batted for Salveson in 9th.
 Delaney batted for P. Dean in Sth.
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Five Years Ago To-day-Kid Chocolate outpointed Steve Smith.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01
The Masses Demand the Passage of
the Workers Insurance Bill (HR7598)

THE demand Of the masses of workers and farmers for
the enactment by Congress Of the Workers Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance Bill CHR. 1899 is
growing stronger and stronger from day to day.
The mass pressure Of the workers Of Minneapolis
forced the City Council of that city to ndorse the
Workers Bill and to call for its enactment at the
present session Of Congress.
The demand of the thousands Of unemployed Of
Minneapolis, led by the Unemployed Councils for the
enactment of the Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill forced Ernest Lundeen, Minneapolis Farmer-Labor
Congressman to Introduce the bill into the house of
Representatives as HR. 1893 Lundeen was driven to
this action especially by the demands Of the rank and
file followers Of the Farmer-Labor Party
The workers and farmers Of the United States
demanding that President Roosevelt keep his cam
paign pledges and grant the unemployed security
against starvation The liquidation Of C.W.A jobs the
failure Of Roosevelts promises to end unemployment
through MIRA and p,W.A to materialize makes
clearer to the the crying need for adequate
unemployment insurance.
In the A. F. Of l. Unions, William Green's attacks
on the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill have not
been able to still the voice Of the F. of L. rank and
file who in increasing demand the passage of
the Workers Bill Green, spokesman for the Roose-
vet New Deal has Issued attack after another on
the Rank and File A. F. of L. Committee for Unem-
ployment Insurance But every day. additional local
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01
Some Burning Problems
Facing Our Party
Convention
By JOHN WILLIAMSON
Organizer District S (Ohio)

/ Baslng ourselves upon the correct
analysis of the 18th E.C.CI. and 18th
&C. Plenum, We must see clearly that
we are on the threshold of a new
and larger wave of struggle of the
toiling masses, including strike
wave exceeding the proportions of
1888.
The basis Of this is laid in the
wholesale offensive already launched,
through the New Deal and the MIRA,
against all strata of the working. and
toiling population-and the dissipa-
ton among considerable masses of
the illusions created by the NR.A.,
! eva, etc. The continued economic
crisis Of capitalism with its resulting
sharpened imperialist world trade
rivalries, demands still greater at
tackS upon the masses. One form Of
this continued offensive is to be
ound in the sharp increase in prices
which will take place very shortly
beyond the gradual increase up till
now, as a result Of the so-called So
cent dollar. Another form will be a
new direct wage-cut, already in
dicated in the railroads demand for
a Is per cent cut. The workers,
chained to the starvation wage levels
of the Industrial Codes, will be con-
fronted with these new wage-cuts-
direct and indirect. The initiation
will also affect all strata of the toll
ing population. These last events
will serve to let loose a tremendous
wave Of struggles Of the masses,
To mobilize the Party to lead these
struggles now, should be the central
task Of the Conventions discussion
of the various District Plenuns and
Conventions. This is not an essen
TALLY new task but it is more urgent
than ever before, if we are to Learn
from experiences of the past and moi
wake up after the struggles take place
and are led by someone else. To leac
these mass struggles means to inten-
sify our daily mass work and Party
practices in the light of the Oper
Letter.
i In Ohio, we can say plainly, UNI
less we make the Party conscious Of
this central problem, these struggles
will take place without us leading
them, but with the Social ascists Of
all branches GA. F. Of L., Ohio I'm
employed Leagues in the leadership
Part of the process Of mobilizing The
Party, is the need Of teaching tht
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01
Some GIGring Neglect in Party
Recruiting in Buffalo, n. Y.

EDITORIAL NOTE-The following
glaring recruiting industries
join Party great possibilities
with the slightest effort This should be taken the
yenOn discussion applying to all units sections and districts We
Party members to send such letters discussing the
pOrtant task of recruiting, especially Steel coal railways and other
basic industries
H..
ago Buffalo
into the Steel Union Office would
together
send delegate to the Unemployed Convention and he
to out and explain all to them So went and
down. explaining to them the best Of knowledge the
employment Convention and why called Then threw the
floor for discussion questions which
Communists could group Party
that the whole meeting unit meeting
the workers in the what thought the
joining that we want to
do Then decided call meeting Friday night
the Communist Party also this meeting bringing
into said they get
money they will join
You by this that there
for the Party but
about the Communist Party to them Sometimes think
much farther then Them Party
would discuss with the
much rapidly than
This composed Of important workers
Republic two at Standard Oil the G. w
steel workers They going to form Workers Club South
and through this nucleus will be able good fighters
Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01
Wisconsin Insurance
Act Bars JObless, Has
Misconduct Clause

out good cause attributable 10 his
employer" The administration Of the
act is left In the hands Of the IN
/ dustrisl Commission of the state, and
[ consequently, it is well nigh impos-
sible for the employee, in case Of
being fred through misconduct" to
I prove the employer at fault. This is
in effect an anti-strike clause which
ties the worker to the employer and
holds the threat Of firing and loss Of
benefits over his head in case he
joins a union.
The act does not include any I'M
employed worker who is sick or dis
abled. The law says on this point
that to be eligible for benefits the
employee must be, physically able
and available for work" Those IN
employed who through starvation
conditions have become i'll are by this
clause abandoned to starvation. Lum-
Der workers, farm laborers and rail-
road workers, are barred from benefit.
Five Dollars a Week
Under the heading, weekly Benefit
Rate" the act says. Each eligible
employee shall be paid weekly bene-
fits for total Unemployment at rate
CT SO per cent Of his full time weekly
wage, with a maximum Of ten dollars
and a min mum OF Eve dollars.
Ten Weeks Is Maximum
Limitation Of Benefits. 49, The
amount Of benefits weeks of bene-
fits an einplOye may receive from
the fund shall depend upon bis re-
cent weeks Of employment by the en-
plOyer. Each employee shall receive
benefits in the ratio of one week of
total unemployment benefit Tor an
equivalent amount of partial unem-
/ Pigment henefit) to each four weeks
/ Of employment Of such employee by
/ the employer within twelve months
7 preceding the close Of the employees
most recent week Of employment by
the employer"
In other words, the above para
/ graph limits the employees benefits
on the basis Of the amount of time
he works. The benefit cannot go
above one week Of unemployment
I OGIleIlG Tor every TOUR weeks worked.
! Those who work less than this, and
/ need the insurance the most, do not
get it, under this paragraph.
The act continues, Maximum ben
Gifts in any year, No employee
shall receive in any calendar year,
more than ten weeks of benefits for
teal unemployment, nor more than
an equivalent total amount of bene-
/ fits either for partial unemployment
or for partial and total unemploy-
ment combined"
Payment Not Guaranteed
But payment Of even this miser-
able sum, for so limited q period, and
to SO few workers, is not guaranteed.
The unemployed, under the act, may
/ receive even less. "The employer
does not guarantee full payment by
the fund Of the benefits above speci-
fed. The employers liability to pay
benefits under this plan is limited to
the current net resources the fund
has at the time. In case the funds
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01

jumped headlong into the strike sit
uation in order to cash in on the mill
tant struggle of the hackmen. While
our comrades from the taxi workers
union with assistance Of the T. U. U.
G. took an active and leading role
in the strike, our Party has failed
completely to mobilize its membership
to give leadership to the struggles Of
the hackmen.
Even after the men we're stampeded
back to work, due to the treachery
Of Mr. Panken and his S. p. col
leagues, our Party failed to expose
these leaders among the hackn1en and
to all the workers in New York. (Ex-
cept the exposure in the Daily Work
err. we even failed to explain our
position in the taxi strike to our own
Party membership. To cite an ex-
ample, our agit-prop director in Sec
ton IS asked me whether Gandal
(Gandal supported LaGuardia during
tha elections and MT himself forward
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01

unions Of the A F of L. go on record demanding the
enactment of the Workers Bill.
The Spokane Central Trades Councils of the A. F.
OF L. Endorsed the Workers Bill in the face of wire
from President Green not to recognize the A. F. of L.
Rank and File Committee. One thousand A. F. of [,
locals have already Endorsed the Workers Unempoy-
ment Insurance Bill City and state councils of the
A. F. OF L. have Endorsed the bill
The mass pressure of the workers has forced city
councils of such cities as Minneapolis Tacoma Wash
Buffalo, N Y, Milwaukee, Wise. Rockford ILL., Great
Falls Mont and others, to indorse the Workers Bill
Hundreds of thousands of workers. at mass meetings
in unemployed and faternal organizations and in the
revolutionary unions, have demanded the enactment
Of the bill.
But with more direction and intensive work by the
Communist Party districts sections and units and the
local Unemployment Councils, in organizing and ex-
tending the campaign for the Workers Bill the mass
pressure of the workers and farmers for it's enactment
can be brought to higher point than it has vet
reached The campaign for the bill in the A. F. OF L.
unions has been confined too much to the building
trades locals In thousands of local unions Of the
F. OF L. serious fight for the passage Of the Workers
Bill should at once be conducted by the rank and file
The fight for security at the expense of the employers
and the government should be extended to local unions
OF the A. F. of L. in all industries
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01
Transport Concentration
In the New York District

winning over and mobilizing these
workers and winning Of the factories,
Communist Party which Z rough its
/ revolutionary trade union work does
not build highways TO the broadcast
masses Of workers, cannot lay claim
TO policy capable of making it the
leader Of the working caIss within
the shortest possible time"
This quotation was not taken up
seriously in our section. At Section
No. Is conference, six months ago we
decided to concentrate on railroad,
city-transports and other shops. Our
concentration program has been ap-
piled in the most formal and me-
chanicaI manner. For instance, on
transport the section picked out a
group Of Comrades to concentrate.
For months the transport unit failed
completely in its concentration work
at the 1. r. I. repair shop. This unit
was actually becoming a place for
vacationing Of our Party members.
Only after the section had realized
that it is the task Of the entire Sec
ton Of the Party to concentrate. only
when the section committee took up
the question seriously of transport
concentration and recognized the
entire unit from the top down. did
this unit begin to work seriously.
Even today in the transport unit there
are certain wrong tendencies because
Of the lack Of understanding Of how
to concentrate. OF course. we have no
blue print on this question. Neverthe-
less without the direct guidance of
the district and section comittees this
! important work will not be carried out
in the proper manner. Right now.
as these words are being written, for
the last three weeks since the taxi
strike began there is no oomrade in
charge Of this important concentra-
ton work from the district. The
conTade who was in charge of city
transport concentration before is now
q leading member Of the United Taxi
/ Drivers Union and the district up IN
til today failed to replace him. Weeks
ago some very good plan was worked
out but was not carried out. I think
that such a way to concentrate is only
to give lip service to our work. 1 call
on all comrades who are doing work
among the transport workers to write
in their experiences.
From 30 to 90 thousand taM-drivers
went out on strike spontaneously ty-
ing up the entire taxi industry for six
days fighting against the scent tax
and for full union recognition. From
the S. P. leaders, Thomas, Panken
down to the every petty rakataar
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Party members to Withstand and ex-
pose the demagogy of the bourgeoisie
government and their Social-F Fascist
lackeys. Of course, the decisive task
is to turn the attention and activity
of every unit and member to active
work among the masses.
Underestimation of Work in AT. of l..
In relation to work in the A. F. of
L. there exists great opportunist UUl-
derestimation on the one hand and
on the other considerable confusion.
We must make clear that our main
strategy on the trade union field is
the building Of the revolutionary
trade unions. The tactic of working
within the A. F. Of L. must lead to
a strengthening of our strategic line.
To repeat this correct formula and
then neglect work inside the A. F. Of
l.. in practice is, of course, not per-
Missile. The repetition of the en-
phasis on our main strategy in the
trade union field, is necessary because
in my opinion some of our leading
comrades in the A. F. of l.. work,
completely misunderstood it.
Furthermore, in some Districts, the
Party committees have adopted a
policy in connection with the C.W.A.
skilled jobs, of calling upon all the
workers to join the A. F. of L. Paint
ers and Washers Union, when the
great majority were absolutely OPP
posed to this, because the A. F. of T..
leaders had suspended them from
membership, months and years ago,
because of non-payment of dues and
assessments. To call upon the work
ers to rejoin, under these weeks,
C.W.A. jobs, only meant milking the
workers weekly to make payment on
back dues and then have them
thrown out again. refer to cities
where the A. F. of L. no longer have
the majority of the painters organ
lied. In other cities, the fight Tor
reinstatement should have been made
on the basis of mo payment of Ole
dues and assessments" In Cleve-
land, where the majority of painters
are unorganized, we followed a cor
rect policy of fighting with the paint
erS against being forced to pay 81
and more per week to the District
Council on back dues, as a condition
of getting a C.W.A. job. We organ
lied many into the Relief Workers
Union and in other jobs and formed
Job committees. We were successful
in defeating in the majority of cases
this tactic of the A. F. Of L. leader
ship.
Underestimation Of A. +. of L. Worl
We can say very frankly that il
Ohio, while in isolated spots there
has been some attention paid to op.
! position work in the A. F, Of L., there
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01

become inadequate to meet In full all
valid benefit claims, the maximum
weekly benefits normally payable I'M
der this plan shall be reduced" Fur
Their, in order to make it clear that
the totally unemployed do not get
anything, the bill says: I'm no case
shall the fund remain, or be liable
to pay, benefits to an employee for
any week OF unemployment occurring
more than six months after the cal
endar week during which the EN-
plOyee last performed services for the
employer" Those who are unemployed
for six months, get no unemployment
benefits.
AL of the above quotations are
from the approved Voluntary Plan"
issued by the Wisconsin Industrial
Commission, which has complete
charge of the administration of the
act Of legislature. But even in this
model act, the Industrial Commits
sion leaves the door open for deci-
sions on several important clauses
which further benefit the employer.
Under the act, the above quotations
of clauses which must be embodied
in any voluntary plan, give the best
terms possible for the unemployed
worker to secure under the Wiscon-
sin act.
The setting Of the benefits" at
from five to ten dollars, coupled with
clauses which state that the jobless
must register for work at state en-
ployment offices and that they must
be unable to secure other work to be
eligible for benefits; all Of these pro
visions tend to reduce the wage
standards Of the workers. They tend
to inaugurate forced labor of the
jobless and are definitely coupled
with proposals in the Act for forced
labor on state work at SIS to $40 q
week.
The Wisconsin Law is not unem-
pigment insurance, but is an anti
strike, forced labor, reserve" propo-
sition which applies to those in in
dustry, which bars those totally job
less, and which tends to reduce wages
and legaIzes forced labor
Only the Workers Unemployment
and Social Insurance Bill CHR. 1888
now before Congress. grants security
to the unemployed workers. All
workers and working class organiza-
tons should Immediately demand of
their congressman the passage of
HR. 1898.
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has been absolutely too much under
estimation Of the role Of the A, F.
Of l.. and the consequent need of OPP
position work being an equal and
necessary complement to the building
OF the TU.UL. unions.
To state that the A. F. of L. is
not factor in Ohio when the mining
industry is 100 per cent organized into
the U.M.W.A.; 5000 rubber workers
in the Federal Unions; the key rail-
road workers are in the Brotherhoods
or Shop Crafts; in steel, several.
thousand are in the A.A. and ener-
getic campaigns are being conducted
in other industries, particularly tex
tile, is merely to fool ourselves. 1t
need not be stated that this is done
with the help of the NR.A. apparatus;
Of the company many times; that
many times it is merely for the recog-
milton and check-off without any con-
sequent Improvement in workers con-
ditions These things are true as is
the fact that many workers see
through" the A. F. of L. leadership
but have not been convinced Of join
ing the T.U.UL., and have organized
independent unions.
Particularly in the steel industry,
do we repeatedly hear our comrades
stating, the A.A. is dead" But this
dead" union, has, for example, six
hundred members in the Youngstown
Sheet and Tube in youngstown, 100
in the steel mill in Ellwood City
several hundred in Carnegie in
Youngstown, $500 in Otis Steel in
Cleveland as well as in Canton, etc,
and is beginning active work in many
| other steel mills In some places,
as for instance, Farrell, Carnegie,
Newcastle, Otis Steel, after the SIN.
VIII had a foothold in these mills,
the A. F. of L. has come in and has
assumed hegemony. This is only an
indication of the underestimation
of the role of the Social-Fascist lead
ership, precisely in this period of
sharpening class struggle.
Correct Tactics
In tackling shops completely or
partially organized into the A. F. of
L., it is necessary to work out an
effective tactic. Too often we dis
pose of the matter in our leaflets by
the simple" methods Of putting the
company union and the A. F. of L,
union into one set (by implying that
the A. F. Of L. is just the same as
the company union) or by hurting
the epithet 'racketeer" When the
workers have joined up in whole or
in part in the A. F. Of L., it does not
win them closer to us, by referring
to the A. F. of L. local as a conn
pany controlled union" Firstly, there
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as fusionist leader of the taxi
drivers union) is a member of the
Communist Party because he is doing
wonderful things for the men.
I think that the district committee
should invite all comrades to write
in their experiences in the taxi strike.
1t will be a valuable lesson for the en-
tire Party.
In order that we may not repeat
our mistakes we Should have in mind
the words Of comrade Stain speaking
before the 18th Party Congress Of the
Soviet Union stating: ut would be
naive to believe that these difficulties
can be overcome through resolutions
and decisions. To combat these diff
culties it is necessary to raise the
level of organizationa1 leaderhip in all
spheres of National Economy It is
necessary that the organizational
work guarantees the practical mate
REALIZATION Of political slogans and
Party decisions"