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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
PLAN BENEFIT IN PITTSBURGH

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 2o.-An
entertainment and dance will be
held in the International Socialist
Lyceum, 805 James ST., North Side,
on Saturday night, Dec. 20, for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
BALKS
AT DECLARATION
OF INDEPENDENCE
Sacramento Trial Judge Would Modify Old
Document by Inserting Word lawfully
Into Section UNFOLDING Revolution
By Jack Crane
Especial to the DAILY worker

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Dec. 2O.-The prosecution Wig
orousy objected yesterday to quotation from the Decara
ton of Independence the right of the people to alter to
overthrow government at the here of the 10 workers
charged with violating the California Criminal Syndcaist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
OF VOTE
CAST FOR NOLKER
In UMWA ELECTION
Rank and File of the Union Prepares to Block
Attempts of Pat Fagan's Clique
To Steal NOlker's Vote
By Tom Keenan,

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 20.-As rank and file represen
atves District Five of the United Mine Workers
full authentic results of last Tuesdays baong preparatory
to blocking the obvious attempt of Pat Pagan to steal the
election reports being brought in of the Lewis machines
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
AFFAIRS FOR THE
DAILY WORKER
East st. Louis, Mo.

Benefit Banquet, Sunday, Dec 23,
pm. ct Yociss Hail, SGT Collinsville
St. Admission to banquet, csc per
plate.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
Steel Bosses Tighten
Attempt to Railroad
Egan, SMWIU Head
Penn. Superior Court
Reaffirms Decision
to Railroad Egan

PITTSBURGH, Pa.-The State
Superior court of Pennsylvania has
reaffirmed the decision Of the lower
courts to railroad James Egan. Sec
rotary of the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union to one
year imprisonment on the framed
up charge Of melting to riot
Egan has been out on bail since
last November, following the arrest
at crucial point during the Am
bridge strike when the steel barons,
seeking to rob the strike of its
leadership, arrested Egan. Now
again the decision to Jail Egan
comes at a time well calculated by
the steel corporations to hinder the
developments Of the rising struggles
in the steel industry. The National
Convention of the s. M. w. I. U.
to convene August 3rd is now in
preparation. The decision to jail
Egan is aimed at sabotaging the
preparations for this convention.
The steel trust realizes the impor-
lance Of this convention, coming at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
Illinois Jobless
Hold Southern
Meet July p
Unemployed Councils,
Workers Alliance, PIMA
Issue Call

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-Representa-
tives Of employed and unemployed
workers will meet here on July 81
and % to plan campaign for the
enactment of the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill, for the
raising of relief throughout the
state to at least Cook County levels,
and for the recognition of workers
committees at all relief stations,
The call was issued jointly by a
number Of organizations, including
the Unemployment Councils, the
Illinois Workers Alliance locals Of
West Frankfort and Buckner, Pro-
gressive Miners of America Locals
l, Is and SIS, and the Progressive
Hod Carriers and Unemployed of
Harrisburg.
The conference will be held at
Odd Fellows Hall. 2131a So. Fourth
St. Springfield, Ill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
Luzerne County, Penna.
JObless to March Today

WILKES BARRE, Pa.-WorEers
in Luzerne County, under the lead
ership Of the Unemployment CQun-
ellis, will march on the various re-
lief offices throughout the county
Wednesday, July 10. The demands
of the unemployed include: %
doubling of present relief; 90 So
weekly cash relief to single workers;
80 no evictions, cash rent for small
home owners; "a supplementary
relief to all unemployed; and 80
tax moratorium for small. home
owners.
Mass meetings are being held by
the Councils of Ashley, Plymouth,
Larksville, Miners Mills, Swoyers-
vile, West Wyoming and Wilkes
Barre, to rally workers for the
march.
Workers in Wilkes-Barre will mass
at Fulton and Coal SITS, in the
Heights Section, Wednesday, July Is,
at 1880 a. m
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
Upholsters' Union to
Meet Tomorrow Night

NEW YORK.-An open meeting
of all upholsterers is called by the
Upholstery Department of the Fur
niture Workers Industrial Union
for Thursday, July 10, at pm, at
the union hall, 812 Broadway, N.YC
At this meeting the following will
be discussed:
/. The Jersey City situation in
connection with the Brooklyn
Lounge Strike.
2. A report of the Conference
which was held last Sunday in
Philadelphia between the Furni-
ture Workers Industrial Union
and the locals of the Interna-
tional UpholSterers' Union where
definite decisions in favor of the
united front were reached.
3. A report on the present sit
nation in the trade in New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18

All taxes to come from the wealthy
classes.
Full equality and rights for Ne
groeS.
For workers Soviet Gov
eminent in alliance with impover-
ished farmers.
While these are six main points
to be put forward in the program,
these will serve at the ratification
conference for the formulation Of
a more detailed program.
The Communist candidates on
the state ticket of the Communist
Party are, I. o. Ford of Cleveland,
for Governor; jamie Langston of
bus, for Lieutenant-GoV-
ernor; VIM. Patterson of Toledo,
for Treasurer; VIM. McDermott of
Hamilton, for Secretary of State;
Yetta Land of Cleveland, for At
torney General; w. G. Sandberg of
Cleveland, for U. S. Senator; John
Marshall of Leetonia, and Ben At
kins of Akron, for U. S. Congress
men-at-large.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
JObless Halt Forced Labor
Project in East st. Louis

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill.-Fully 500
workers, members of the Unem-
ployment Council of Madison, the
Illinois Workers Alliance of Venice
and Granite City and the Federal
State Aid Association, stopped the
forced labor work on the Venice
High School here Friday.
The attempts of the Illinois
Emergency Relief Commission to
carry through their work for
beans" program have been met with
the militant resistance of the I'M
employed in st. Clair and Madison
Counties. The workers in the E.
st. Louis and Tri-City districts are
putting up a struggle in the face
of the sabotage of such leaders as
Claude Broshears and Earl Clause.
To insure a victory in this fight,
it is necessary to form united
front of all workers and to carry
through the election of delegates to
the Conference for Unemployment
Insurance to be held in Springfield
on July 81 and % at the Odd Eel
lows Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18

THERE is not Socialist worker Communist who will
not be thrilled at the news that has just come from
France telling of the final realization of United Front
Sin defence of labor and democratic liberties
against the menace of Fascism
Why, in the of everything that precious to the
American working class cannot such United Front agree
N country?
Are not menaced here by Fascist reaction?
dictionary violence breaking, hauyn
preparations for going right before eyes?
Can honestly that the American
not understand the need of fighting reaction
and all those working fighters being
Nazi prisons?
To that would be to SANDER the American working
And the Socialist Party with
Committee continues to the repeated
the Communist Central proposing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
1000 Out in York
Cigar Company Plants

YORK, Pa. FP).-Almost so
cigar manufacturers-practically all
in York County-were forced to
close their plants when 1000 mem
bers of the Cigarmakers Interna-
tional Union of America went on
strike. The strikers formed NOV
able picket line to enforce their ac-
ton by keeping all the cigar fac
tories in their county closed.
The strike was the workers an
swer to the announcement by the
York County Manufacturers Assn.
that the open shop would prevail
in their 127 industries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
Issues Call for Support
Of Party's 6-POint Program

CLEVELAND, Ohio, July IL
The Election Campaign Committee
of the Communist Party of this
state has issued call to all work
ing class organizations for a con-
ference in Youngstown, Ohio, on
July 20 to ratify its six-point cleo
ton platform. The conference will
be held at the Central Auditorium,
225 Boardman ST., at 10 am.
The six points of the Communist
Party state program are:
For the right of all workers to
organize, strike and picket.
For Unemployment Insurance as
provided in the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill Oh. R. 1899.
For cancellation of mortgages,
taxes and other liens of Small-home
owners and farmers.
Repeal of all present tax laws
which workers, poor farmers and
small business men have to pay
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
Ambridge Workers Prepare
For Steel Convention

AMBRIDGE, Workers here
have taken the call for the Second
National Convention of the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial Union
and pasted it up on the telegraph
poles throughout the town. Because
of the extreme terror against all
militant workers and their organ
izations, the workers cannot meet
to elect their delegates, only in sec
ret groups, illegally. All halls are
closed to the workers. Open air
meetings are banned. Warrants are
still out for the National Secretary
of the union, James Egan, in Am
bridge. Aliquippa and the whole of
Beaver County.
The eyes Of the workers in this
county are on the Second National
Convention of the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union. They
are thoroughly disguised with the
officials of the Amslgamated Asso-
citation, after the glazing sellout
carried through by Mike Tighe and
Company. Officials of the A A.
affiliated to the AFL.) have been
in Amb1idge for the past three
months, with the consent of the
steel corporations and the local gov
eminent. In all this time, they have
not been able to organize ten work
ers necessary for them to issue an
A. A. local charter.
The workers Of Ambridge appeal
to the workers throughout the
country to support the Second Ma
tional Bi-Annual Convention of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union. These workers in such shops
as the A. M. Byers Pipe Company,
Spang Chalfant Pipe Company, the
National Electric Company, the
Central Tube Company, the Amer
lean Bridge Company have shown
their determination to send dele
gates to this convention, in spite
of the brutal police terror. They
appeal to all workers to rush funds
for the support of the convention
to the National Office Of the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial
Union, 929 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh,
Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
e Unknown Soldier under the

cemenng specific action
against reaction and imperaist
Comade Browd General Secretary the Communist Party
written letter simple
members of the Socialist Party action against
class which daily takes strength encouragement
disunity in the ranks the working
But still Still silence brutality of
poyers the offensive of the Wall
These momentous times working class
Minneapolis etc. making glorious history struggles agans
the yoke of slavery oppression
there not the uny
the obstacles that stand
What has been accomplished accomplished
The Communist Party has made offers with
caist Party. 1t still ready eager for unity
Members of the Socialist Party All truly
the working strong divided and
weakened let there action United let
that the Party answered
IL France, why
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
Natl Councils
PledgeSupport
to Cen'I Strike
Call for Unity In the
Fight Against Hunger
and Terror

NEW YORK. - T e National
Board of the Unemployment Coun-
ellis. in statement issued today,
pledged the full support of the
hundreds Of thousands of members
Of the Unemployment Councils
throughout the country in support
of the striking West Coast workers.
The statement calls upon the
membership Of the Councils in the
East and around the Gulf ports
to join in all solidarity actions with
the San Francisco strikers. and re-
news its pledge to actively support
workers everywhere in their strug-
giles against common enemy for
better conditions and the right to
live.
The statement in full follows:
1.-THE National Unemployment
Council halls and greets the inspir-
ing general strike struggle in sup
port of the West Coast Maritime
Workers. This struggle marks the
beginning of the necessary united
counter offensive against the hun
ger and terror program Of the
bosses and government. The sue
cess of this struggle will serve to
strengthen the fighting forces of the
workers everywhere throughout the
United States,
'The National Unemployment
Council calls upon all of its afi-
lated organizations everywhere to
rally in support of the longshore-
men and seamen in their fight for
improved conditions and the right to
organized control of their Jobs. We
especially call upon all affiliated
organizations on the East as well
as the West Coast and on the Gulf
to rally for active support of the
strike. We pledge and will under
take to mobilize the unemployed
in all parts to prevent the load
ing and unloading of ships from
and to ports that have been struck
and to support the movement to
spread the strike to all ports. We
call upon our affiliated organiza-
tons to organize and join mass
protest demonstrations in every
city against the use of federal
troops, militia and police violence
against the strikers. We call upon
our members to establish picket
lines at every employment Office
that attempts to recruit scabS. We
especially direct ourselves to assum-
ing prompt adequate relief from
the responsible agencies. for all
strikers.
"The splendid support thus far
given by the unemployed in this
great struggle, and in all other
strikes of which this one is a part
must and will be duplicated and
multiplied The National Unem-
ployment Council is proud of the
role that the organized unemployed
have played in preventing the use
of unemployed as strike breakers.
We pledge the multiplied efforts of
the hundreds of thousands of IN
employed Council members through
out the country in the active fight
against the common enemies of all
workers.
Forward in the fight for the
right to live.
"On with the fight for security
through enactment of the workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
Cleveland Communists
Speed Election Plans
Must Collect $4,000 Signatures Immediately To
Put Party on State Ballot

CLEVELAND, Ohio, July IL
John Williamson, district or
ganizer of the Communist Party
in Ohio, today issued the follow
ing appeal to the membership of
the Party in Cleveland for re-
doubled efforts to collect $4,000
nominating petition signatures
needed to place Communist can
didates on the state election bal
lot.
"The District Bureau calls upon
every Party member in Cleveland
to attend his unit meeting tonight
without fail despite the tiresome
work in which we have been en-
gagged this week and despite the
miles of marching today follow
ing the upsurge Of mass indigna-
ton over the relief murders.
"The unit meetings tonight will
receive special instructions con-
corning the alarming election sig
nature situation, the August First
demonstration and the building of
a mass unemployment council"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
Illinois State Election
Committee Moves to
Its New Headquarters

CHICAGO, July 17.-New
headquarters for the Illinois
State Campaign Committee of
the Communist Party have been
opened in Room TOP. 1O1 S. Wells
st. The phone number is Dear
born 1894.
Increased activity in connec-
ton with the campaign, particu-
larly with the Cook County
Nominating Conference of July
% placing additional responsible
ity on the committee, have made
larger quarters necessary.
All inquiries on campaign prob
lens should be addressed to this
office or to neighborhood head
quarters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
Mass at Relief Office
Demanding Pay

JOPLIN, Mo.-Relief workers here,
angered when their relief checks
had been delayed, massed before the
Welfare office July ID. Just as ths
meeting was about to begin. an
announcement was made that the
money had arrived"
Earlier in the day meeting of
$50 workers, addressed by John
Day, Communist candidate for Con-
gress, was held in the same place,
and the meeting adjourned for the
later part of the day, at which the
men we're paid.
There are about 1900 relief
workers on all the projects here.
Single men and women get nothing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
Twenty Fur Shops Strike

NEW YORK.-The fight for July
increases in the fur industry con-
tinued yesterday with 20 shops on
strike under the leadership of the
Fur Workers Industrial Union. Five
shops have already settled with the
union. The settlement agreements
have given the workers S. to $40
increases in pay.
The drive for the increases was
spurred on by a mass meeting of
workers in the market yesterday
which was addressed by Ben Gold,
leader of the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
Natl Executive Board
of Union Discusses
Steel Situation

PITTSBURGH, July 17.-Plans 70
resist the steel bosses offensive, as
shown in increasing mass lay-offs
in the mills, violation Of agree
ments by Republic Steel, and tha
attempt to railroad Jim Egan, Gen.
eraI Secretary Of the Steel and
Metal Workers Union, TO jail, wers
discussed at a meeting Of the Ma
tional Executive Board Of the union
held in this city.
The board meeting made final
preparations for the second national
convention of the union, which viii
be held in this city Aug. 3. Reports
were given by representatives of the
different districts on the progress Of
the convention preparations. Many
locals have already elected thei1
delegates; still others are develops
ing activities in connection with
the mass lay-offs in steel and
thereby mobilizing for the conven-
ton. Special convention calls have
been addressed to all independent
unions and locals in the industry,
inviting them to send fraternsl
delegates.
Convention VIII Rally Steel
Workers
The convention will focus the at
tention of all steel workers on tho
increasing fierce attacks on their
rights and living standards, and
viii have as its main program the
task of modifying the workers for
mill and local struggles around par
tial demands, and for the prepara-
ton of a mass strike in the indus
try.
The steel barons, realizing the
significance Of the coming conven-
ton, have chosen exactly this tins
to railroad the General Secretary
of the union, Jim Egan, on framed-
up charges Of 'inciting to riot" DUR
ing the Ambridge strike in 1888. The
sentence of one year in jail imposed
by the lower court has been upheld
by the Pittsburgh higher court. An
appeal must be filed within the next
eight days with the Supreme Court
if Egan is to be kept out of jail to
continue his leadership Of the steel
workers struggles and participate
in the convention.
Calls for Joint Action Against
lockout
In addition to the necessary ex-
penses of the convention, the steel
barons have confronted the union
with the necessity of raising hun
dreds of dollars for Egan's defense.
The National Executive Board de-
cided to appeal to all unions and
mass organizations to come to the
unions assistance with contribu-
lions to enable the holding of The
convention and secure the release
of Egan.
Answering the action of the Res
public Steel in refusing to renew
the agreement with the Analga-
mated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers and in locking out its
workers, the board meeting called
for joint actions with the A. A
membership, and preparation of a
joint strike to force Republic Steel
to renew its agreement, and at the
same time to demand from the city
governments that unemployed relief
be given these workers during the
whole period they are outside OF
the shops. Preparations are also to
be made for a strike when the COM
pany announces the re-opening OF
the mills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
Urge Packed Court as
r elief Union Leaders
Face Trial at 10 Today

NEW YORK.-Paul Block, organ
izer, Michael Davidow, secretary of
the Relief Workers League, and
Jack Rand, arrested last week for
distributing leaflets at the ferry
entrance to the Governors Island
Fort Jay project, where over 200
relief workers struck against mass
lay-cff, will be tried today at the
First District Magistrates Court,
Franklin and Center SITS. Workers
are urged to pack the court at 10
am, when these workers come up
for trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
Eight Jailed in Philadelphia
Gulf Oil Co. Strike

PHILADELPHIA CFP) Eight of
the TOO striking Gulf Oil Co. work
ers of Philadelphia have been ar
rested in the two weeks Of the
strike, five Of them for trying to
talk to strikebreaking truck driver
The strikers are demanding wage
increases, reinstatement of fired
workers and continuation of the
system of hiring workers from the
list of foimer employees. Almost
$50 drivers and Gulf service station
attendants have joined the strike
with similar demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
On the Strike Front

nation of the workers. Strikers re-
talisted by placing railroad ties, rail
plates and even rails in front of
locomotive trying to enter the
yards of the company. One worker
was beaten up by a village deputy,
and another burned when he picked
up a tear gas bomb to hurl it back
at six special deputies.
Union men are approaching the
workers in the pottery kilns to walk
out. If that group leaves the plant,
the firm will lose thousands of dol
lars a day. Also tent city was
to go up today where pickets will
sleep while picketing will continue
"a hours a day. In one tent it was
planned to open first aid station.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
Vim Relief Concessions

CINCINNATI, Ohio-A delega-
ton of 100 workers forced j. E.
Stuart, Hamilton County Relief Di-
rector, to promise that the quality
of food would be improved and fresh
fruits would be included in all re-
lief orders. Immediate relief was
granted for the needy cases pre-
Sented.
Petitions for cash relief are being
circulated in the neighborhoods by
the Unemployment Councils and
will be presented to the County Com
missioners at a demonstration on
the Hospital Lot, 18th and Central
Ave, Friday, July 81, at $50 a. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18
Los Angeles Plant Closed
After 14-Week Strike

LOS ANGELES FPD.-After a
1G-week strike, A. H. Wittenberg,
president Of the Mission Hosiery
Mills Of Los Angeles, closed his
plants to await settlement of the
strike through meeting between
union officials and the manage
ment before the Regional Labor
Board. The chief demand Of more
than $50 workers involved is for a
closed shop. Constant picketing has
been maintained despite police ter
ror.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-18

without the Communist
Party and the Daily Worker
the masses of the United
States are leaderless and
victim on every side to
the direst oppression, to
the crueiest Detrayals. That
the larger part of the
masses of this country
unemployed and employed
workers, including strikers
from coast to coast--still
fail to gauge the role of
the Communist Party in
their struggles is due in
principal measure TO the
present limited circulation
of the Daily Worker. 1t
must double. triple and
gain circulation in the
hundreds of thousands. If
every Party member and
sympathizer gets one new
reader. we will have more
than 10000 new readers by
September First"
BILL DUNE