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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
birmingham Workers Discuss General Strike As Many Factories Walk

ing tense in the steel mills and coal
mines of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron Co.
City street sweepers, under Com
munist leadership, are also prepar-
ing for strike.
The only thing that can prevent
a general strike is the strikebreaking
activities Of the A. F. of L. buroc-
racy, who are working behind the
scenes with the N.R.A. officials.
Police Act as Scabs
The general city-wide strike of
the twelve packing houses was pre-
vented when seven firms agreed to
seven and a half per cent in
crease. The five firms on strike
are: Armour, Swift, Cudahy, Will
son and HORNED. All plants are
being picketed day and night, but
the companies, with the help of
county deputies and city police, are
acting as conveys for meat ship
ments for some of the packing
houses, while police are trying to
attack the picket lines. One of the
Negro strikers, George c. Spruce,
was arrested but later released. At
the same time Hill grocery and
meat store was dynamited, causing
800 damage. Governor Miller also
offered 5000 reward in connection
with the bombings and dynamiting
in the mine strike.
The Communist Party is warn
ing the strikers to watch out for
the maneuvers Of the bosses. 1t
points out that all individual vio-
lence, as well as bombings and
dynamiting, are against the inter
est of the workers, and that such
acts are stimulated by stool pi-
geons and scabs. The Party says
that the answer to the violence,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08

test against the Alabama terror,
which forced the release Of the
arrested Communists, has not yet
stopped the terror activities of the
police and thugs. The atmosphere
Of an armed camp Is increasing,
especially since the authorities fear
another strike in coal as well as
in steel, not to speak of a general
strike. The authorities are espe-
cially Infatuated by the remark
able growth in solidarity between
white and Negro union men. A
great deal of talk Is heard that
without white and Negro sticking
together, the South will never be
unionized.
In the strike zone, individual strik-
ers are being beaten by the deputies
and some arrested. In the mean
time, the White Legion is trying to
get anti Communist laws passed,
while it increases its strikebreaking
and scab activities under the lead
ership Of r. S. Gulledge, well known
Gastonia and Kentucky strike
breaker and stool pigeon.
The articles Of John H. Lawson,
who was here as the correspondent
of the Daily Worker, have created
such a stir in Alabama that q num-
Der of conservative editors have been
forced to attack the White Legion,
among them being John T. Graves,
End, of the Birmingham Age Herald,
and Reese Amis, of the Huntsville
Times.
However, Robert Williams,
printer. has been convicted of
printing "scurrilous and abusive"
literature, and sentenced to six
months on the chain gang and a
800 fine. He was arrested for
printing a Communist Party leaf
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
Hat Strike Spreads
To New Factories
Workers Walk Out in
YOnkers and Newark

NEW YORK-The strike OF 1000
hatters, which began here last Fri
day, is spreading rapidly to the hat
factories in other sections Of the
country and to non union hat shops
in New York.
Two shops in Yonkers, the Dali
ton and Security shops, we're struck
yesterday, The latter shop moved
away from New York several
months ago in an attempt to halt
union organization. Along with
these the Omaha shop came out
and in Newark workers in the Ferry
Hat factory are striking
Reports from Norwalk, Conn,
state that workers of the Crofford
and Knapp Co. have held meet
ing and expect to walk out.
The strikers, members Of the
United Hatters of North America,
are demanding increases in wages
and recognition of the union,
The national officials Of tbs
union have attempted to smother
the strike movement by refusing to
give financial assistance to the
strike committee. A committee was
elected yesterday to appear before
the national president, Michael
Green, and demand that the strike
be given the full support of the
leadership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
On the
Strike Front
Steel Workers to Hold
Picnic in McKeespOrt

MCKEESPORT, Pa.-The first
annual district picnic Of the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial
Union and the International Work
ers Order will be held on Saturday,
June 9th, at Olympic Park. Nc
Keesport, Pa, one of the largest
parks in Pittsburgh District.
This will be the first picnic to es-
tablish an annual Steel Workers
Day in the Pittsburgh District. On
this day the steel workers, under
the leadership of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
will demonstrate their unity and
readiness to struggle for better con-
ditions, against company unions,
and for the right of the workers
to join the union of their own
choice.
Many members of the Amalga-
mated Association have already
bought tickets and have signified
their willingness to bring large
groups Of A. A. members to the
picnic.
James Egan, National Secretary
of the S. M. w. III. will be the
principal speaker on the speaking
program. There will be dancing, re-
freshnents and entertainment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
Articles byLawsonCreate
Sensation Throughout
Alabama

still not unlikely that the author
tiles will try to frame Communist
leaders on murder charges, al
though there are no grounds
whatsoever to support such frame
ups.
Frances Perkins, Secretary of La
Dor, assured industrialists of Ala
bama when she was in Birmingham
recently, that she would not oppose
the traditional" differentisl, which
gives the southern workers, espe-
cially the Negro workers, the lowest
wages in the country. Her glowing
reports as to the fine conditions"
in the southern textile mills are
being widely quoted in the southern
bosses press. Coming in the face
of threatened textile strikes against
miserable wages and conditions, this
is not without real significance. 1t
shows where the Roosevelt admins
tration stands on the oppression of
southern labor.
The manifesto of the Eighth
National Convention of the Com
nunist Party Is being distributed
among the strikers, miners, steel
workers and railroad men, and re-
cciving warm response.
The Communist Party and the
I. L. ID. call on organizations
throughout the nation to intensity
the wave of protest against the
Alabama terror in order to help
the workers here win their right
to organize, and the fight against
the differential wage for southern
workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08

terror, provocation, arrests and
frame-ups on the part of the
bosses and their agents, is real
mass action and militant picketing.
Arrest Pickets
In the meantime, picketing con-
tinues at the ore mines. The steel
corporations are trying to starye
the miners back to work, with little
success. The A. F. of l.. leaders of
the strike recently ordered all
unemployed sympathizers off the
picket line, which resulted in a few
scabs getting into some of the
mines. At the same time the CO.
operation between the A. F. of L.
bureaucracy and the National
Guard led to the arrest of whole
picket line which was imprisoned
for four and a half hours in black
smith shop in Bessemer.
u der Communist leadership,
rank and file groups in the unions
are meeting in order to strengthen
the picket lines, and to call for more
support so that the strike can be
kept solid, and the demands of the
ore miners can be won. The Young
Communist League is issuing
leaflet to the National Guards, ap-
pealing to them not to attack their
fellow workers on strike. Despite
the terror in the ore strike area,
white and Negro workers are meet
ing together to map out joint plans.
A white worker, having overheard
that the deputies would raid the
home of Negro Communist, in
formed the Negro comrade OF this,
took the literature away from the
house and distributed it on the
picket line before the deputies
arrived.
The tremendous nationwide pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08

let outlining the revolutionary
position on the unions. His case
is to be appealed with the support
of the International Labor De-
Tense.
Chief of Police Luther Hollums
has also refused to return a type
writer and several suitcases full Of
books, and papers belonging to the
Communist Party and the I. L. D.
which the police seized in their
raid when the six leaders we're ar
rested. The 1. L. D. is filing suit
to recover this property.
Prepare Frame-ups
The trial of Sam Arnett, deputy
sheriff, and Grady Baker, county
marshal, charged with the murder
of the two Negro union miners,
George Bell and w. H. Ford, was
postponed until June 26, by Judge
H. B. Alternately, who said that the
evidence was thus far conflicting,
and that unless the state produced
additional testimony, he would dis
charge the defendants. But at the
same time, in the county court of
misdemeanors, Ben Winston, Joe
Evins, and William Holloway are
now on trial for assault with intent
to murder for the wounding of six
deputies in the battle which ended
in the murder of Ford and Bell.
Thirty other cases with similar
charges against miners are to be
heard.
The evidence already shows that
Winston, Evins and Holloway
were beaten and inundated into
signing confessions that the Com
munist Party told the Negroes to
fight for their rights, ard there
fore they thought that this meant
shooting for their rights. II Is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
To Organize Natl
Union of Telegraph
Messenger Boys
7. M. U. Appeals for Aid
To Send Organizer
On Tour

NEW YORK. = The Telegraph
Messengers Union is starting a drive
for a national organization of mes
senges and Is sending its general
organizer on countrywide tour, it
announced yesterday.
1t is the intention Of the union
to consolidate the gains made by the
independent messengers unions
when they struck in Minneapolis,
Detroit and Cleveland, in April-to
affiliate with these unions and to
establish locals in the respective
cities.
In order TO do this, however, and
to send the organizer on the trip,
the union is making an appeal for
funds. I'm the month of May" the
statement continues, I'VE spent
sl0750 to send three mass delega-
tons to Washington code hearings
and to fight the telegraph COM
panies. We gained many conces-
sions and much prestige. This
struggle has left us without any
funds in the treasury. The mes
sengers themselves, who earn be-
tween $3.50 a week, can't finance
this drive. We therefore appeal to
all workers, to all working class or
CARNATIONS, to all sincere and sym
pathtic elements, to aid us. Send
contributions Immediately to the Ma
tional Organizational Committee in
care of The Telegraph Messengers
Union, ia w. 14th st., N. Y, c."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08

ferred to the Impartial Chairman
for settlement -. his decision shall
be final" 1T is further agreed that
all decisions of the Impartial
Chairman in all matters concerning
the hosiery industry shall also be
binding upon the parties to the
Agreement"
Postpone Strike
The old agreement of the A. F.
of H. w. in Reading expired on
June LIST, The above is quoted from
the new agreement, which the
bosses have already refused to
sign. The union has formally
served notice that strike Of the
hosiery workers would take place
unless the agreement is accepted,
but the fear of the officialdom to
bring the workers into struggle is
evidenced by the fact that they
are postponing this strike indefi-
nitely. The executive board of the
union has passed a resolution en-
dorSing the strike call, this strike
call to be good for so days and
more, to be used at the discretion
of the local leaders.
The union in Reading is con-
trolled by Socialist Party members
! and is affiliated with the local Fed
Grated Trades Council Is. P.-con-
trolled). 1t was this outlet that sold
out the workers in their strike last
summer and are now preparing
another betrayal.
The hosiery workers of Reading
must demand the calling Of strike
in the industry, Immediately, that
not Reading alone shall be called
out, but that Philadelphia should
come out at the same time. I'm
less this is done there is very little
hope that the Reading workers will
wni their demands for union recog-
milton. They must definitely reject
the arbitration clauses in the new
agreement and demand complete
recognition Of the union, with rank
and file control.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
Painters, Steel,
Fur Men Strike.
In Connecticut.
New Wave Brings Five
More Strikes Since
First of June

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. June T.
Five new strikes since the first Of
the month is Connecticut's contri-
button to the latest wave Of strikes
that is sweeping the country, On
June first, the painters locals in
Bridgeport and New Haven voted
at 8 secret meeting to strike on
Monday. On that day al the union
painters in both cities struck for
s115 an hour. The employers are
offering 75c an hour On June 5,
the members Of the Brotherhood
Of Carpenters and Joiners in
Bridgeport and New Haven went
out on strike also for $115 an hour.
A general strike Of all building
trades workers in the state is
threatening.
A few smaller hat and fur shops
in Danbury and Bethel were closed
by walk-outs in the last few days.
The largest of these hat factories.
the American Hatters and Furriers
Company, attempted to operate
with scabs. About 1000 strikers and
sympathizers greeted the strike
breakers who we're leaving the fac
tory yard in taxis, with hail of
bricks and stones. The police i'm
mediately went into action against
the strikers. A number of scabs as
well as policemen were badly hurt.
Five strikers were arrested.
The Vulcan Malleable Iron Works
of New Britain, an affiliate of the
Eastern Malleable Iron Company Of
Bridgeport, which has been on
strike for the past two weeks, was
struck this week by q big majority
of the over 300 workers. The vote
to strike was taken Monday night
at q meeting Of the shop local Of
the Steel and Metal Workers Indus
trial Union, into which the men are
organized. Both the Bridgeport and
New Britain strikers will concen-
trate on the head plant OF the
Eastern Malleable Iron Company in
Naugatuck, in order TO make the
foundry workers strike general in
the three Connecticut plants of the
company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
$4,000 Cash
Bail Set For IL
Relief Fighters
Hills bOrO Press i'm
Lynch Indictment
Against JObless

HILLSBORO, Ill, June bail
of $4,000 each has been set against
IL workers arrested in the recent
demonstration for relief and against
the fascist ordinance passed by the
City Council, banning the right of
workers to assemble, organize and
picket. Property, if offered for bail
must be twice the cash amount, the
court ruled. That is, unless $50, 900
cash bail is raised or property Of
fered to the value of $4,000 is
pledged, the workers will be impris-
oned until the Grand Jury meets in
November
A meeting will be held at the
Montgomery County Jail in Witt
Monday, and an emergency confer
ence to fight for the release of the
workers will be held in Taylor
Springs within two weeks
Local papers are screaming lynch
slogans against the militant work
ers in jail, and all who dare to fight
for adequate relief. The Mont
gomery News carried this state
ment:
Grown tired of the attitude as
sumed by some who are living upon
the charity Of the nation in these
trying times, when work and liveli-
hoods won't go round, several groups
have decided to give not only their
moral support to officers in en-
forcement of the laws, but are Of
fering to give muscular support
and whole-hearted cooperation.
The International Labor Defense,
whose lawyers were refused admit
lance to the Jail and were forced
out Of town by local mobs on Mon
day, announces that it is taking q
writ of habeas corpus to the Su-
preme curt to force reduction of
the enormous bail,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
800 Demonstrate
In PHILADELPHIA

NSpcCial 10 the Ohlly NOEkBGJ
PHILADELPHIA, June Shout
ing demands for the freedom of
Ernst Thaelmann, Angelo Herndon
and the Scottsboro boys, 300 work
ers including many longshoremen
and seamen, massed in an anti
fascist and anti-war demonstration
on the waterfront this morning,
under the auspices Of the Commu-
mist Party.
The demonstrators carried many
banners protesting the growing fas-
cist terror In this country against
strikers, demanding a solid unity
of seamen and longshoremen with
their striking comrades on the West
Coast. Other banners expressed
fighting solidarity with the rev.
dictionary workers Of Germany
and the oppressed Negro people Of
this country.
kilograms we're sent TO Hans
Luther, German Ambassador in
Washington, demanding the i'm
mediate release Of Thaelmann from
the Nazi dungeons, and to the Rank
and File Strike Committee of the
West Coast longshoremen and sea-
men pledging action against all
ships coming into Philadelphia
from the strike area.
Enthusiastic applause greeted the
speakers, Edward Bender, A. w.
Mills. H. M Wicks, MacHalris, w
Powell, as they outlined the grow
ing wave of Fascism in the United
States. and call on the workers TO
struggle in a solid body against
Fascism in Germany as a means of
defeating the fascist elements here
NEW YORK,-Robert Hamilton
author and journalist, who has re-
Gently visited Germany, will speak
at The John Reed Club, 450 Sixth
Ave, on The Life Of Ernst Thsel-
mann" on Sunday, June 10th, $50
p, m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
Three Held on High
Bonds for Picketing
a Jersey Factory

JERSEY CITY, N. j., June T.
Declaring that strikes and picket
ing would be eliminated in Jersey
City, the local Chief Of Police yes
terday ordered the arrest of two
members of the Furniture Workers
Industrial Union who were picket
ing the Miller Parlor Furniture Co.,
at 261 Orient Ave.
Police also arrested Martin Har-
ris, photographer Of the Workers
Film and Photo League, who had
taken pictures of the police attack
on the pickets, and Gale Straus,
representative of the union. All four
are held under exorbitant bonds of
$4,000 each. The two pickets are
Max Norman and Tonascheffsky.
The plant is one Of eight. which
broke their agreements with the
union, after moving from New York
to Jersey City. The union will con-
tinue to picket the plant in defense
of the interests of it's members and
the rights of the entire working
class to organize, picket and strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
Fur Dressers Prepare
For General Strike

NEW YORK.-To open up a mill
tant fight for the establishment
Of the $2.10 price for fleshing rab-
bits, the Fur Dressers and Dyers
Industrial Union has appealed to
the members and the executive
board of Locals Is and IS of the
A. F. of L. to meet jointly at the
Industrial Union Auditorium, 131
w. 18th ST., Saturday at IL am.
to discuss the question Of united
general strike.
The industrial union proposes that
a united general strike be called:
that the unions fight jointly for the
re-establishment of the s210 price;
that a committee Of 25 of the A, F.
Of L. and similar committee from
the Industrial Union shall be set
up to make immediate preparations
to lead the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
.JObless Mass at
St. Louis CITY
Hall, II Today
Pittsburgh Unemployed
Demand Cash, Clothing,
Medical Aid

ST. LOUIS, Mo. June calling
upon auto workers, nut pickers, P.
w. A. workers laid off in recent
weeks and others TO pack the Al
derTnanic Chambers here on Friday,
June 8. the Unemployment Coun-
ellis will demand the passage of the
st Louis Workers Municipal Relief
Ordinance. The demand for the
passage Of the Ordinance, proposed
weeks ago by the Unemployment
Councils after numerous public
hearings had helped to formulate
it, is now becoming city-wife
Numerous unions, as we'll as the
neighborhood meetings, are en-
dorsing and demanding the passage
Of the ordinance, which calls for
the payment of minimum of $40
for each unemployed worker with
out discrimination to single, Negro
or foreign-born workers, and So
additional relief for each de-
pendent.
Last week several hundred nut
pickers rushed the relief station
after being laid off by the sudden
closing of the Funston factories.
Some 1900 auto workers have been
thrown out on the streets following
the sell-out of their strike, and
5000 laid-off P. w. A. workers are
daily visitors at the relief offices.
On top of this mass attack upon
the workers, a vicious wave of dis
elimination against Negro families
is prscticed at the relief agencies
With mass starvation, special in
vestigators are sent out by the
Citizens Relief Committee to FAM
lilies applying for relief, with orders
to cut relief allowances. Paid q
commission" on each dollar they
reduce relief budgets, they are
threatened with the loss of their
jobs unless they carry out the or
ders of the relief officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
Terror Severe; Printer
Given Six Months
on Chain Gang
BY NAT ROSS

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, June T.
The strike situation in Birmingham,
where 5000 ore miners are out, re-
mains very tense. The Brittling
cafeteria workers are still on strike.
The Selma Cotton Mill still main
tains a lockout and the steel
workers at the Thomas Furnace are
still fighting for the recognition of
their union.
The strike of the meat cutters in
the chain stores is now in it's sixth
week. At the same time $50 pack
ing house workers struck last week
in Birmingham for recognition of
their A. F. of l.. union, and for a
ten per cent pay increase.
There is a great deal Of talk
about a general strike in the city,
especially with the situation becom-