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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
Relief Reaches
New Low Point
In In d a IL a

HAMMOND, Ind, Nov. 15.-No-
vember relief appropriations for the
$4,000 destitute families on the re-
lief list in North Township, COM
prising Hammond, East Chicago,
Indiana Harbor and Whiting. pro-
vide only three dollars a month for
all relief to each person.
The hunger dole, S45,03S for the
month, provides for $4,000 for food
two dollars month for each per-
son. Rent payments are negligible,
providing for the payment of not
more than $1,000 total for the
$4,000 persons and for the adminis-
trative offices. Other items on the
township relief budget include
$4,000 for coal; $1,000 for hospital
ization; $500 for dental aid; 1908
for special medical Investigators;
500 for drugs, and $3.50 for dis
tribution of government food.
GARY, Ind, Nov. 15.-August re-
lief lists for Lake County, accord
ing to figures just released, show
larger relief needs than at any time
in the present year. While hundreds
have applied daily since last fig
Gres were released, the August lists
show 81, 1885 persons receiving relief,
as compared to 1877 last January.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
HerndOn To Tour West Coast Steel Bosses
To Speed Drive for Defense Ask for Laws
of the ScOttsbOrO Youths To Bar Strikes
Meetings Will Be
Held in California
and Arizona

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15.-Angelo
Herndon will be greeted Sunday
night at the Mason Theatre here
with an overflow house of Negro
and white workers and their SYM
pathizers. This prospect stands as
virtually assured today, four days
before Herndon's arrival on Sun
day, Nov Is, to speak that night
at the annual concert of the In
ternational Labor Defense.
The heroic young Negro Commu-
mist will relate the latest steps in
the mass and legal fight for the
Scottsboro boys. He will deal with
the latest efforts of the Alabama
lynchers, acting this time through
the renegade defense lawyer, Sam
uel S. Leibowitz. to disrupt the
Scottsboro defense.
Wide interest is being shown
throughout California in Herndon's
visit here With requests pouring
in from workers DESTROYS of hearing
the famous class war prisoner, the
itinerary for his tour of California
has been extended, as follows
Nov. 10 at the. Mason Theatre,
Los Angeles.
Nov. 19, San Francisco.
Nov. 20, open date
Nov. 81 to 25 inclusive, San Fran
cisco.
Nov. %, Santa Barbara.
Nov. 20, San Diego.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
Unemployed Seamen
Make Relief Bureau
Give Them Clothing

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Nov. 15.-
Unemployed seamen here organ
lied into the Waterfront Unem-
ployment Council scored another
victory Yesterday in winning is
suance of Winter clothing.
Recently delegation Of 80 seamsn
from the Council met with G. c.
Huckaby, director of the bureau of
the homeless and transients. Huck-
ably refused to issue necessary clo-
thing, saying that the men would
have to go to Harrisburg. The
seamen threatened to place a mass
picket line about the relief head
quarters unless their demands were
met.
Yesterday the members of the
Waterfront Council received a let
ter stating that clothing would
hereafter be distributed to jobless
seamen daily at 129 South Second
Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
)hio Jobess To Place Demands Before State Assembly
Job
Control Asked
By l. S. U. Men
Sailors on Beach at San
Pedro Sign Petition
of Industrial Union

SAN PEDRO, Nov. 15.-Demands
for a centralized shipping bureau
have been expressed in writing by
100 out of approximately 200 sea-
men on the bench here following a
meeting Friday night called by the
Marine Workers Industrial Union.
Forty of those who signed the
demand for the centralized ship
ping bureau belong to the Interna-
tional Seamen's Union, 80 to the
M. w. I. U. and the remainder are
unorganized.
Mass picketing is being used to
enforce this demand.
In the short time that the project
has been under way, the reaction
airy leaders of the International
Seamen's Union have already be-
come alarmed. Recently they have
been thoroughly exposed by the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
in its bulletin "The Crows Nest"
This lively bulletin, in addition to
outlining the need for a Central
lied Shipping Bureau, showed how
the 1. S. U. officials have misused
their job control by shipping out
men without any previous expert
ence while men with experience
were waiting in the hall.
1t showed how a relative of a
harbor official joined the Sailors
Union and was shipped out ten
minutes later, and how three men
with strike clear picket cards were
pulled off the Diamond Head by the
Firemen, oilers and Water Tenders
delegate and replaced by men with
no strike record at all.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
Maryland c. p. Vote
Shows Drop; Gains
Listed in One Office

BALTIMORE, Nd, Nov. 15.-Un-
official election tabulations for this
city and for II of the % counties
in the State give the following re-
turns for Communist Party candi-
dates.
Bernard AIDES, for Governor. SOL:
Samue Gale, for United States Sem
ator, 816; Pinkerton. for Attorney
General, 654; Howell, for Comptrol-
Ter, 781; and Parker, for Clerk Of
the Court of Appeals, 1885.
Although the vote for most Com
munist candidates showed reduce
ton from the 1882 vote for the
same offices, the vote for Parker
showed an increase of almost 200
over the vote cast for the same
office in 1882.
The vote for Communist eandi-
dates for the House of Delegates
in the Fourth Legislative District
was as follows: Samueison. 1853,
Raffeld. 1856; Whitney. 176; Gates,
ITS; Hoffman. 1866; and Hinton, 1913.
The Socialist Party vote here
showed sharp proportionaJe drop.
No returns have been made public
yet on local Communist candidates
or on IS candidates for the House
Of Delegates in outlying counties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
F.E.R.A. Mules
Receive More
Than JObless
Monthly FeedAllowance
Exceed S Amounts
Given Families

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Nov.
15.-Nine hundred mules purchased
over month ago by the F. E. R. A.
are being maintained at the stock
yards here at an expense to the re-
lief administration that is greater
than the relief given to entire fam
lilies of the unemployed Feed for
each mule averages $3.50 a month;
the 1000 destitute unemployed
families on the relief rolls here av-
erage s720 family for an entire
month.
Yet the 900 mules held here rep
resent less than half the number
that the F. E. R. A. has in scattered
concentration pens throughout the
State. More than 1000 others,
among the 1000 purchased for ru-
raj Mobilization, at a cost Of $500, =
900. are in these pens.
Thus, the monthly food bill for
the 300 mules would be sufficient to
maintain 1850 families under the
present F. E. R. A. relief allowance.
Yet on Oct. "a, State relief head
quarters announced in the daily
press here that relief rolls in the
rural areas should be sharply re-
duced."
The mules, now that F.. E. R. A.
owns them, must be cared for at
least until the Spring planting sea-
son, since difficulties in establishing
NEEDY" disqualified farmers who
last applied for them.
In passing, it might be noted that
several hundred mustangs. wild
horses acquired by the Oklahoma
F. E. R. A, are also in corrals and
concentration pens throughout the
State.
The relief set-up in Oklahoma
was originated by Carl Giles, State
F, E, r. A. administrator, whose
economic sorcery has won unstinted
praise from Washington for his
outlined program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
GitlOw and Whisky,
Communist Renegades
Join Socialist Local

NEWARK, N. j., Nov. Is
Ben Gitlow and Harry Winitsky,
former leaders in the renegade
Lovestone group, will have to
pay extra carfare to force their
newly avowed allegiance on the
Socialist Party.
The two have joined a Social
list Party branch in Irvington,
N. j., near here. Their action
followed the refusal of the New
York State Committee of the
Socialist Party to accept the
collective application of group
Of Lovestoneite renegades for
membership.
The Irvington branch will en-
Joy a 40 per cent gain in mem
bership as a result of the enroll
ment of the two renegades. I'm
til now the branch has had only
five members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16

deal to these 5000 workers and their
families"
Besides these wage increases, he
added, the union was successful in
reducing the working hours, getting
security Of the jobs and bringing
about better working conditions for
these workers. This is the reason
why the SMWIU. grew and solidi-
fled its ranks and the workers stick
to and fight for the steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union.
"The bosses and reactionary Ia
Dor leaders, like Mr.. Sperling," Lustig
continued, "are the ones who are
bringing about such conditions for
the workers in order to maintain
the system of starvation. The SIN.
VIII. and similar organizations are
the ones who are fighting for the
immediate improvement of the con-
ditions of the workers, and at the
same time pave the way for the
workers to do away with the system
of starvation"
AS for the Continental strike,
Lustig stated that for three months
preceding the strike the polishers
had been asking for a wage in
crease, but all they received from
the bosses were promises. At a
department meeting the polishers
decided to quit at 4:30. The fore
man of the department started a
fight with the polisher, who quit
first and called on the others to do
likewise, and fired him.
That night the polishers decided
unanimously to strike for the rein
statement of the fired worker and
for wage increase. This was the
reason for the Continental strike.
The strike was won after day
and half. The fired worker was
reinstated and the polishers re-
ceiyed wage increases to the amount
of 50 and So a week, in spite of the
fact that Sterling kept the platers
and Sporting the spinners working
during the strike.
Sporting Would Aid Boss
Sporting and company" Lustig
stated, claim that we cannot put
forth big demands because by us
doing so the manufacturers will
leave the city. They propose to
accept wage cuts and the absolute
rule of the bosses and make the
unions instruments for the intro
duction of more efficiency, more
speed-up for the benefit of the
BOSSES"
The Industrial Union, he said,
proposes to carry on fight for the
improvement of the conditions of
the workers, to follow every manu-
facturer who goes out of town,
wherever they go, with organiza-
ton, and strike action. IF this is
done" he said. I'VE will put stop
to their fleeing from the city to
avoid organized labor and union
conditions"
Charging that the manufacturers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
Cites Gains Made When
Unity in Struggle
Was Achieved
BY AL STEELE

Were 1t not for some of these
reactionary leaders of A. F. of L..
metal unions" James Lustig, dis
trict organizer of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
stated in an interview with the
Daily Worker yesterday, Joint &C
ton of all workers in the trade and
more rapid improvement of our
conditions would have been COM
paratively cinch."
Interviewed between shop meet
ings at the union headquarters, 35
East 10Th St., Lustig described how
he, with delegation, appeared at
the meeting of Local 26 of the
United Electro Platers League, A.
F. of L., Tuesday night. He at
tended the meeting on invitation
from John E. Sterling, Business
Agent of Local 26.
United Strikes Conducted
In the past year and a half, he
explained, the New York District
of the S. M. w. I. U. conducted a
number of strikes in a united front
with other unions in the metal in
dustry. These struggles resulted in
considerable economic gains for the
workers engaged in the industry.
Sterling sent the following letter
to the S. M. w. I. u, addressed to
Lustig:
Dear Sir:
"You are hereby invited to at
tend the meeting of the above or
ganization, in Teutonia Assembly
Rooms, 1856 Third Ave, N. Y. c.,
on Tuesday, Nov. Is, 1884, at 8 pm.
to discuss the matter of cooperation
as suggested by you at our recent
meeting in Long Island City
Our President, Brother Kelly, has
decided to grant you the privilege
of the floor for a period of one
half hour. Expecting to meet you
at this meeting, remain,
Yours truly,
JOHN E. STERLING"
After writing this letter, Sterling
set the stage, Lustig related, by
bringing to the meeting the reac-
tionary leaders of the Metal Spin
ners Union, Mr.. Sporting, business
agent; Caruso, president, who was
scabbing in the Eastern Metal
strikes, Kastelak, and others as well
as Timothy Daily, notorious business
agent of Local 8, of the Interna-
tional PolisherS Union, A. F. of L.
At the meeting Lustig utilized his
half hour to give a picture of the
conditions of the workers in the
metal industry. Pointing out that
although the platers are highly
skilled workers, some of whom are
electro-chemicsl engineers. tn ey
we're nevertheless, he said, wage
earners, and like all the other work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
Youngstown Will Hold
Anti War Rally Sunday

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Nov Is
DR.. Harry F. Ward, national chair
man of tn e American League
Against War and Fascism, will be
the principal speaker at an anti
war and anti-fascist meeting on
Sunday at pm. at the Central
Auditorium, 225 West Boardman st.
The appeal for the meeting has
been signed by the following mem
bers of the executive committee of
the Mahoning chapter of the
League: Clarence Irwin, president
of the Sixth District of the Anal
gamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers; c. H. Mccarthy
of the Deforest Lodge of the A. A.;
Ed Kephart, of the Buckeye Lodge
of the A. A.; the Rev. Jones, of the
Plymouth Congregational Church;
7. Vagnozzi, of the Independent Sons
of Italy, and John Steuben, of the
Communist Farty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
Clothing Mill
Is Shut Down
By Strikers

CLEVELAND - (FPJ - Striking
employees of Kaynee Co., manufac-
turers of boys wash clothing, have
forced the company to close down
it's factories with 95 per cent of its
winter orders unfulfilled, Vice-Pres.
Edward c. Seitz has revealed.
About 800 workers are affected.
Strikers are demanding recognition
of the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers of America, and reinstatement
of workers fired for union activity.
They have received pledges of sup
port from the Cleveland Federation
of Labor and numerous independent
unions and labor groups.
Following three days of testimony
before the Regional Labor Board,
the National Labor Relations Board
has notified the A.C.W.A. and the
company that it will hold hearings
on the case on Nov. 20.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
Reactionary Lea der S
Held Back Victory
in Many Cases

Of various industries, including
metal, with the responsibility for
the starvation of about 1900, 900
unemployed and the semi starvation
of millions Of employed in the coun-
try, Lustig stated that the leaders
of the type of Daily and Sporting
are largely responsible for 1t by
their selling out of the interests of
the workers.
1t was Mr. DAILY who wanted to
sell out the strike of the Columbia
Metal Stamping Products Company
only a few weeks ago. Our union
stepped in" he said, and led the
workers to victory, getting wage in
creases, time and a third for over
time and security of the jobs
THE workers present at the meet
ing realized the correctness of the
methods of the S.M.W.IU. to win
strikes and improve conditions.
They realized that unity is a vital
question for every worker in the
shops and will respond to the call
of the S.MWI,U. in spite Of the
fact that certain individuals are
doing everything in their power to
prevent unity"
Unity Meeting Called
In order to further develop this
movement towards unity meeting
of all polishers, members of the In
dustrial Union, members of Local g.,
and unorganized polishers, has been
called for Tuesday, November q, at
Manhattan Lyceum. I'VE are in
viting Mr.. DAILY" Lustig stated. ito
attend this meeting and put forth
his proposals for unity of all pol
ishers and every worker of the in
dustry to improve the conditions
of the workers"
All indications point toward a
growing gap, he said, between the
leaders and the membership in
these unions. On the one side of
the fence are the workers striving
for unity, and on the other, certain
leaders trying to stop thise move
ment towards unity.
THE Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union" Lustig concluded,
will do everything in its power to
establish united action in each in
dividual shop in the different trades
and in the whole metal industry,
for the benefit of all workers.
The district convention of the
S.MWIU., which will take place
this Sunday at the Irving Plaza
Hall, will clearly indicate the
strength of the union and will re-
view its activities for the past year.
The question of joint action of vari-
Gus unions, quite number of which
will be represented there. will be
one Of the main points in the con-
vention proceedings"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
Urge Passage of Laws
Similar to English
Disputes Act
By Labor Research Association

by LABOR research ASSOcldkiOn
Roosevelt's call for a capitaI-labor
truce" in his "fireside talk" of last
month met with an enthusiastic re-
ception from the steel companies.
Writing in Iron Age, October II,
George Ehrnstrom. Jr., declares
that the steel industry is "jittery
with uncertainty even though the
general steel strike was avoided last
June through the efforts Of Roose-
welt and william Green, A. F. of L.
president.
The Iron Age editor urges all steel
companies to rally behind their
company unions in an effort to off,
set any gains of the trade unions.
He suggests that the Federal Gov
eminent would do well to restrict
the activities Of national unions. -
meaning, Of course, the trade unions
as distinct from the company unoins.
Then taking his tip from T NJ.
Girdler, president of Republic Steel
Corporation, the National Associa-
ton Of Manufacturers and other
agencies that have recently been
pushing for the passage of such an
anti-strike law as they have in
Britain, Ehrnstrom asks, Why not
benefit further from the British ex-
ample by studying the British Trade
Disputes and Trade Unions act Of
1922"
Two weeks later, in its issue Of
October 2i. Iron Age in a full-page
spread entitled Where Emulation
Of British Labor Policy Would
Lead Us returns to the subject Of
anti-strike legislation. It declares
that if the provisions of this Brit
ish anti-strike law were passed this
country would soon be rid of the
major labor controversies which
have been so seriously retarding
business recovery
Then it summarizes in bold type:
THE British act prohibits SYM
pathetic general strikes"
1T bans picketing as we know it
in this country"
1t requires unions to make an
accounting to the Government of
their receipts and disbursements.
Following this, Iron Age gives
in three long columns excerpts
from the British Act. Steel, the
other leading trade organ, is also
backing the passage of this anti
strike legislation. In an editorial
in its issue of November 5, it de-
clares that if a provision similar
to that of the British labor disputes
act" had been put in Section Ia
of the MIRA, few Of the strikes
of the past year would have oc-
Cured"
It is quite clear from these lead
ing articles and editorials in the
steel trade papers, that the steel
capitalists are going to be one Of
the main forces pushing for anti
strike and snti-union legislation
in the coming session of Congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16

ers in the industry, were affected
by the present economic crisis.
Many Platers Jobless
There are more platers unem-
ployed now than ever before. Eff
ficiency schemes, introduced III the
plating departments, by the estab-
lishment of the so-called service
system" endanger the very liveli-
hood of the platers.
In order to fight these evils sue
cessfully, Lustig suggested that the
platerS of the U. E. P. L. unite with
the workers in the S. M. w. I U.
to fight for the following program:
Cd Against wage cuts; % For in
creases in wages corresponding to
the rising cost of living; 80 Against
speed-up; a. For better ventilation
systems; 81 For job security; 90
For the right to strike; CD For ade-
quate unemployment relief and in
surance, and 90 For recognition of
the unions
In order to prove the correctness
of his contention, Lustig pointed to
the instances of the Anchor Manu-
featuring Company and the Presto
Lock, where all the workers received
50 wage increases per week as a
result of the united action of the
S. M. w. I. U. and the members of
the U. E. P. L.
In other shops, he said, where this
cooperation was lacking, like in the
Continental Silver Company, only
the members of the S. M. w. I. U.
received wage increases. He con-
cluded his remarks by appealing to
the members of the Electro Platers
League to establish unity with the
S. M. w. I. U. in all shops to i'm
prove the conditions of the workers
in both organizations.
Following him, Lustig related,
Tim DAILY and Sporting launched
a bitter attack against the S. M.
w. I. U.
Answers Charges
In his closing remarks Lustig
answered point by point the charges
made by DAILY and Sporting, declar-
ing that during the past year and a
half the S. M. w. 1. U. led a gen.
eral strike in the silver and hol-
lowware line, two general strikes in
the metal fixture line, individual
strikes in the light metal and nov
city trades majestic, Meltzer,
Seiden, Columbia Metal, Grand
Metal Shops, and a number of
other strikes in the heavy metal
section of the industry (Pioneer In
strument, Karp Metal, Johnson
Machine, Quantiproducts, North
American Iron, etc..
AS a result of these strike strug-
giles and other organizational ac-
tivities of the union, approximately
5000 metal workers received wage
increases ranging from So to $18
per week.
This maybe doesn't mean much
to Mr.. Sporting and Mr., DAILY"
Lustig said, but 1t means q great
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
Decision Is Reserved
On Appeal of Attorney
in Niagara Court Fight

BUFFALO, N. Y. Nov. 15.-Judge
Gould of the Niagara County Court
has reserved decision on tine appeal
of Stanley Chmiel, International
Labor Defnsee attorney, sentenced
to 30 days for contempt of court. "
The sentence was imposed by the
City Court of Niagara Falls when
Chmiel insisted on the constitutional
right to bail of several workers ar
rested at mass meeting, Sept. s.,
called to protest the framing of
Alphonse Davis, Negro worker, on
a charge of rape
The appeals of George Hart, I.
L. D. district secretary, and two
other workers arrested at the Sept.
5 meeting, will be heard tomorrow
by Judge Gould Hart and Stone
were sentenced to 80 days each. and
Wagner, the other worker. to 80
days, on charge Of participating
and encouraging meeting without
a permit"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-16
Toledo Teacher Talks
AT Anti-War Meeting

TOLEDO, Ohio, Nov. 15.-The
American League Against War and
Fascism held an anti-war meeting
last Saturday in the Central Labor
Union Hall which was attended by
over 500 people.
Clyde Kiker, teacher who was
denoted to the rank of janitor for
anti-fasciSt activities. spoke of war,
education and fascism. John c,
Taylor, of the Socialist Party, en-
phasized the necessity of the united
front in the anti-war and anti-fas-
cist struggle. Walter Guntrup. ed
itor of the Union Leader, spoke on
the opposition of union labor to
war activity and fascism.