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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03
Cuba Labor
Prepares
To Strike
Plans 24-HOur Walkout
to Protest Martial
Law Decree
Especial to the Daily wOrker)

HAVANA, Oct. 2, (By Cable).-
Preparations for national 24-hour
strike called by the Cuban National
Confederation of Labor, following a
presidential decree signed two days
ago revoking all constitutional
guarantees and establishing martial
law throughout Havana and Oriente
provinces, is rapidly gaining mo-
mentum.
The main demands are: against
the terrorism of the Mendieta
regime, in support of the telephone
strikers and Havana harbor work.
ers, and in support of the peasant
struggles for land, and for the de-
mands Of the students.
Transportation throughout the is
land is coming to a standstill, and
in the capital and Oriente province
is completely paralyzed. The rail-
roads in MatanzaS and Santiago
have accepted the strike call, and
all trucks and auto drivers in Santa
Clara are off the streets. The auto
strike, called in protest against
taxes on motor vehicles and against
the high price of gasoline, is evil
dence of the intense resentment Of
the ty-bourgeoisie against the
tax policies of the present admins
tration.
5000 Peasants Defy Soldiers
Five thousand peasants of the
Realengo region, near Guantanamo
under revolutionary leadership, de-
fed the governments attempt to
expel them from their lands
claimed by the Royal Bank of Can
ada.
The peasants drove away sur
veying party and detachments of
soldiers sent to carry out demar-
cation plans. They established
armed guards which patrol the
limits of the region, and prohibit
any entrance to government men
and to individuals not approved by
the Committee of Struggle.
Revolutionary Spirit High
The revolutionary ferment of
strikes and uprisings is particularly
strong in the provinces of Oriente
and Havana, where the Central
"Soledad," organized in the revolu-
tionary National Sugar Workers
Industrial Union (SN.OIA0, the
striking coffee pickers (Oriente)
and the revolutionary port workers
of Manzanillo-al led by the Con-
federation and the Communist
Party of Cuba-are up in arms in
strongly united militant struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03
Rank and File Group Of ia
and Joint Strike Committee
Call for United Strike Oct. 8
Longshoremen Expose
Ryan Strikebreaking
'ETruce'' Deal

NEW YORK = The Rank and
File Action Committee of the Inter
national Longshoremen's Association
yesterday issued call to all long
shoremen on the East Coast to de-
feat the strikebreaking truce Of
Joseph P. Ryan and to demand a
united strike with the seamen on
Oct. 8. The call, which is addressed
to Brothers Of the lila" says:
Again Ryan has Unanswered to
betray us.
Last Friday Ryan signed a truce
with the ship owners. He pledged
us to continue working under the
present agreement until the West
Coast arbitration committee an
nounces its decision. Then negotia-
tons for new agreement are to be
renewed.
what is the real purpose behind
this truce? Why did Ryan sud
denly drop his threats of strike,
his demands for $1.00 an hour, ETC.?
The answer is that Ryan is carry
ing out the wishes of the bosses
he is doing everything he can to
help the ship owners out of tough
spot
Right now the shipping interests
are afraid of three things: Cd a
strike of the seamen; 90 a strike
of the Atlantic coast longshoremen
and 80 a re-strike of the West
Coast longshoremen. Naturally the
bosses realize that if any one OF
these three groups goes on strike
now, there is every possibility that
the other groups will also swing into
action, bringing about a general
strike in the marine industry
Therefore the ship owners are deS-
perately working to prevent either
the seamen or the longshoremer
from striking-using their too
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Seamen Urge Rejection
of I.S.U. Betrayal
of Demands

NEW YORK-Urging the seamen
to reject the plan of the National
Labor Rela ions Board and leaders
.of the International Seamen's
Union to call off the Atlantic
Coast strike, the Atlantic Joint
Strike Preparations Committee yes
terday issued a call to all seamen
to smash the I. S. U. betrayal and
strike for their demands Oct. 8.
The call issued by the committee
said:
ITO all Seamen!
Brothers:
Your demands have been pre-
sented to the Ship-ownersl Thou
sands of seamen, organized and IN
organized, have pledged support to
these demands. You must back up
these demands with strike action
on Oct. if they have not been met
by them. Be prepared! Accept no
delaysl Do no let the ship
owners and the I. S. U. confuse
you! Strike Oct. if the demands
are not met.
THE labor takers and the N. R.
A, through Mr.. Garrison, are work
ing hand-in-h to betray you
and prevent the struggle. Ryan of
the I. L. A. has declared a truce
with the shipowners. Now the I. S.
U. strike breakers have cancelled
the strike call forced by the rank
and file! Now you can see who are
your enemies and what you must
do to win their demands!
Since the strike calls have been
issued by the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union and the Interna-
tional Seamen's Union, The ship
owners have been secretly meeting
the 1. s. U. leaders in meetings ar
ranged by Mr.. Garrison, Chairman
of the National Labor Relations
Board. The Joint Strike Prepare
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500 Drug Clerks Plan
Strike for Recognition
By Store Proprietors

NEW YORK-More than 500
drug clerks in Bronx retail drug
stores will be affected by a strike
called for Friday morning by the
Pharmacists Union of Greater New
York, it was said yesterday by Of
ficers of the union.
The pharmacists and clerks will
demand recognition of their union,
and minimum $35 wage for a
maximum 54-hour week. In most
retail stores the current pay is $18
to $40 for week ranging from IS
70 10 hours.
Many individual owners have al
ready signed contracts granting all
three of the demands. The union
has rejected an offer from the
Pharmaceutical conference of 500
for a 54-hour week.
The Pharmacists Union yesterday
called on all workers and sym
pathetic organizations to assist in
strike by sending volunteer
l-akets and by sending delegations
from their ncigh5orhoods urging
proprietoTs to sign up with the
union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03

CHICAGO, Oct. Prior to the
closing of the second United States
Congress Against War and Fascism
here On Sunday resolutions were
adopted condemning fascis t
tendencies in the United States,
the spread of 1ascism in Europe,
the California criminal syndicalism
law, and one dealing Nth the Far
Eastern situation.
The Congress also adopted a
resolution demanding the freedom
of $50 Bulgarian soldiers who face
death sentences at the hands Of
a court martial for having taken
part in a demonstration against
war and fasciSm.
The resolution on fascist tenden-
cies in the United States said in
part that, 'in its hour of death, the
capitalist system is tearing from its
face the mask of democratic and
humanitarian hypocrisy and is re-
vealing itself as the brute eXplciter
and self-seeking tyrant it really is. y
The resolution on European fas-
cism called "for solidarity and sup
port of all to our brothers in pris-
onS, torture chambers and concen-
tration camps in Germany, Italy
and other European countries
where fascism rules"
The Far Eastern resolution en-
dorsed the policy of Nine. Sun Vat
Sen, calling on the masses OF the
Chinese people to organize q united
armed struggle against japanese
imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03
1900 SEANlEN READY TO co OUT:
LICENSED OFFICERS VOTE TO JOIN:
OLANDER MAKES NO-STRTKF DEAF,
BrOwder and Hathaway Speak Tomorrow
at Meetings of Seamen and Longshoremen

NEW YORK-Ean Browde general secretary of the Comnu-
mist Party and Clarence Hathaway editor of the Daily Worker
will address two meetings ongshoremen
evening
BroWder will speak at meeting called by the
the Support of the Marine o'clock
at Irving Plaza Hail. Irving Place
address the meeting by Party
at O'Clock at South Whitehall Streets subject THE
Communists and the Marine Strike"
Among other labor leaders speak Browder meet
ing will be- Jack Stache acting national
Union Unity League; Roy Hudson national secretary
u; Edward Russell member and File
Strike Committee and Hays editor Workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03
Hathaway Will Speak
at 3 Brooklyn Rallies

NEW YORK. = Clarence Hatha-
way, editor of the Daily Worker
and Communist candidate for Con-
gress in the Seventh Congressional
District, will speak at three open
air meetings in Brooklyn this week.
He will report on the Second United
States States Congress Against War
and Fascism in Chicago, which he
attended.
The meetings will be held as fol-
lows: tomorrow at pm. at Broad
way and Havemeyer Street; Friday
at 7:30 pm. at Broadway and Marcy
Avenue, and at $50 on the same
evening at Moore and Manhattan
streets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03
Delegates
HearCreen
On Truce
Anti-Red Drive of A. F.
of L. Head Starts
Badly at Frisco
By Bin Dunno
DAILY Worker Special Correspondent


SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, Oct. 2.
The drive for the expulsion of
"the Reds in the trade union move
ment by one means or another" got
off to a bad start yesterday in the
opening session of the fifty-fourth
annual convention of the American
Federation of Labor. There are a
number of reasons for this.
Slated as the high point of the
President Green's opening address,
the high explosive shells Green was
expected to fire into the "red camp
proved to be buds. The official
family in this convention is more
jittery than ever before.
The internal crisis Of leadership,
contrary to custom, has become the
common property Of all delegates
and, to make it still worse, Of the
newspapermen, quite a number of
whom are members Of the Amer
lean Newspaper Guild and conse-
quently committed to the program
adopted by the st. Paul convention,
which included number of the
main points dealt with in the rank
and file committee resolutions now
officially before the convention.
The calling off of the textile
strike without any guarantees for
some 1000 strikers used up about
all the available resources of the
A. F. of L. officialdom. On top of
this came the really murderous Of
fetal war in the building trades de-
partment. But the cup was not
yet filled and all the bitterness had
not been drained.
On the evening of the day on
which the convention was Off
cially opened, President Roosevelt,
the ace in the hole for the fat boys
Of this great parliament of labor,
comes out in his radio address for
a truce between industry and
labor" This means. since these
leaders have staked all on RooSe-
welt, that all their brave words
paraded in rounded periods before
the assembled delegates are just so
much Sound and fury, signifying
nothing"
Roosevelt Pulls Hoover Stunt
What President Roosevelt has
pulled on this boastful bunch of
so-called recognized labor leaders is
the old Hoover stunt, with the
difference that Roosevelt's proposal
is called truce, it is nothing more
or less than the Hoover arrange
ment, agreed to by President Green
in the first years Of the crisis, that
the unions would not ask for in
creased wages or better working
conditions and the employers would
not institute any wage cuts Any
one who is not a mental defective
knows what happened:
During that period American
wage workers were handed out the
most drastic reduction in wages
and living standards ever received
by a working class in the same
length OF time--and affecting a
larger number Of wage workers
than any employing class had ever
dared to move against in such a
damaging offensive.
President Green, at the time this
form of surrender for wage workers
in general and The organized labor
movement in particular was initi-
ated, described the arrangement as
a fifty-fifty proposition. 1t is the
same kind of a fifty-fifty PROPOSE
ton that Roosevelt, quickly sup
ported by the national manufac-
turers' association, which lost M
time in calling upon labor official
dom to announce its agreement
In..4...a.oL nan pnnn oN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03
1900 seamen Ready To Strike

NEW YORK. = Seventeen thou
sand seamen of the Atlantic ports
will strike on Monday despite as
surances of Victor Olander, secre-
tary of the International Seamen's
Union, that there will be no strike,
Roy B. Hudson, chairman of the
Joint Strike Preparations Commit
tee for the Atlantic Coast, an
nounced yesterday.
Meanwhile preparations were
speeded along the entire coast for
the scheduled walkout.
The move to halt the strike was
brought to light Monday night when
Lloyd Garrison, chairman of the
National Labor Relations Board,
issued a statement to the press
saying that Mr.. Olander had agreed
to call off the strike and to throw
the demands of the seamen into
the laps Of arbitrators. Garrison
claimed that twenty-eight major
shipping companies had agreed to
negotiate questions Of wages, hours
and conditions with officials of the
I. S. U. The plan, an out and out
strikebreaking maneuver, does not
guarantee in the slightest way that
the demands of the seamen will be
granted.
All negotiations for the strike
breaking agreement were done be-
hind closed doors with officials of
the International Seamen'S Union,
and the Joint Strike Preparations
Committee which represents the
rank and file of all the sailors
unions on the East Coast was eli
minated from the discussions.
The Joint Strike Preparations
Committee met with Mr.. Garrison
Monday evening to protest against
the holding of secret conferences
and to demand that the committee
be present and be given full rep
resentation in all negotiations.
Despite the fact that Mr.. Garri-
son had already issued a statement
to the press announcing the calling
off of the strike, he said not a word
to the committee about the secret
sell-out agreement
Roy Hudson, chairman of the
Joint Strike Preparations Commit
tee, asked Mr.. Garrison if he had
suggested that the rank and file
committee be invited to the confer
enceS.
mo, I did not" said Garrison,
because the shipowners did no.
want to deal with this group"
IF the shipowners do not want
to deal with the committee elected
by the seamen there is a way tc
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their members to insure the con-
tinued growth of the new and en-
larged paper.
The rally will inaugurate new
period in the ten-year history of
the Daily Worker. The speakers
C. A. Hathaway, n-chief;
James Casey, managing editor, and
Charles Krumbein, Communist
Party organizer of the district
whose workers are to benefit from
the enlargement of the paper will
describe the new Daily Worker
and its added power in organizing
the workers of this city for mill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03
Y.C.L. WILL MEET TONIGHT

All Young Communist League
members of Sections l and 2 will
attend a joint section meeting at
8 O'Clock tonight, at the Spartacus
Club, 18th st. and 9th Ave. Clar-
ence Prince will report on marine
strike preparations. The strike tasks
and activities of the Y.CL. are to
be worked out.
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400 Longshoremen
Continue Strike On
Frisco Waterfrol..

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, Oct. 2.
-Four hundred longshoremen
ignored TIE proposal of the media
ton board to return to work and
continued their strike today on two
piers.
TIE strikers are protesting the
employment of non-union steve
dores and the barring of union
delegates from the docks. When the
strike was declared special detach-
ments of harbor police were sent
to the area.
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tant class action. James w. Ford
member of the Central Committee
of the Communist Party, will be
chairman of the meeting.
The New York Daily Worker, for
which final plans are being COM
pleted this week, will present a
greatly increased local news COW
erage. 4 new writer has been added
to the staff who will devote himself
solely to covering New York trade
union news and problems. Another
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WalkOut Preparations
Are Speeded to Back
Marine Demands
BULLETIN

NEW YORK. - Two hundred
licensed ships Officers-captains,
mates, pilots and engineers-met
in conference yesterday afternoon
in the headquarters of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, lao
Broad Street, worked up a series
of demands to present to the
shipOwners, and elected a dele
gate to the Joint Strike Prep
aratiOns Committee. The officers
stated that they were ready to
answer the strike call on Mon
day and would unite in solid
fighting front with the unlicensed
men.
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Mass Rally to Greet
TheFirSt N. Y.'DaiIy,'
Out on SundayNight
Delegations Will Bring Contributions to the Big
Welcome Meeting Addressed by Hathaway,
Casey, Krumbein and Ford

NEW YORK-When workers and delegations from
workngcass organizations together Sunday night
at the Central Opera House. 65h Street and Third Avenue
they will gather not only to greet the wo-edon eight
page New York Daily Worker but to bring funds raised by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03
Textile Striker Chicago Farley
Gets Ten Year CondemnsU US.
Jail Sentence Fascist Trends

KOSCIUSKO, Miss, Oct "A
young cotton mill striker, Pearl
Odom, has been sentenced to ten
years in the Mississippi penitentiary
because of his activity in the gen
eral textile strike.
Odom was employed at the
Aponaug Manufacturing Co. plant.
He was charged with taking part
in the disarming and robbing of a
night Waterman. More than 80
witnesses testified that Odom was
attending a union meeting when
the robbery and whipping of the
Waterman allegedly took place.
1.-THE jurors tell me that they are
afraid to bring in their verdict with
the crowd in the courtroom"
Sheriff w. T. Blanton of KOS
ciusko informed Judge j. F. Allen
and Maj. T. B. Birdson of the mill
! tia, when the verdict was ready.
After his conviction, the prosecu-
ton agreed to continuance of the
/ VI 1ol VI COlStCl1U 1ns LIZ 1OlOS11AC u
the Mississippi Federation of Labor,
who faces two indictments charging
him with malicious mischief. The
defense requested that the case be
postponed until the March term
when two material witnesses may
be on hand.
A large detachment of militia has
been brought in for guard duty at
the cotton mill.
NORRISTOWN, Pa, Oct. g.
Three persons were injured today
in a demonstration of more than
1900 textile workers and sympathiz-
ers protesting against the refusal
of the Lees woolen mill at Bridge
port to refire those employees who
took part in the general textile
strike. One of those injured was
Walter Hoeppner, special police
man.
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Evening star., 1934-05-22
FAVORED
TO AID D. c. BLIND
House Subcommittee Or
ders Report to Provide
Financial Support.

A subcommittee CT the House District
Committee today ordered a favorable
report on a bill to provide financial
aid for needy blind residents of the
District.
Action was taken after a public
hearing which was marked by
threat by Representative Randolph,
Democrat. of West Virginia to take
steps for a congressional investigation
of the Hurt Home for the Blind, in
the 5000 block of R street.
Randolph suggested the inquiry
after J. A. Golihew, sightless worker
in the home, said he had been threat
ened with the loss of his job for one
week as a penalty if he attended the
hearing He declared he was not an
inmate of the institution, but had
worked there a number of years.
The institution is privately owned
and operated and Randolph believes
there is doubt whether Congress has
the authority to order an investiga-
ton.
The bill was indorsed by a group
of more than so persons. 1t would
provide an annuity for sightless per-
sons whose total income, with the
award, would not exceed 81, 200 a year.
The measure authorizes an appro-
priation of $4,000 year to provide
a pension fund.
The subcommittee will submit its
favorable report to the full District
Committee at the regular meeting to-
morrow and urge that it be reported
out Immediately and placed on the
House calendar so it can be considered
Monday, the next District day in the
House.
Evening star., 1934-05-22
MISS ADA MORGAN HILL
HEADS DEAF LEAGUE

The Washington League for the
Hard of Hearing has chosen Miss Ada
Morgan Hill as its next president, sue
ceeding Mrs. Katherine Kipp Madden.
Other officers elected last night in
cluded Mrs. Laura Stovel, first vice
president; Mrs. c. A. Laning, second
vice president; George Dickson, treas
urer: Mrs. Margaret Tripp. recording
secretary; Miss Betty Springer, cor
responding secretary, and Miss Annah
Fletcher, Miss Florence P. Spofford,
Miss Nan Blackwell and Miss Frances
Downes. members of the board of
directors.
Plans were discussed for the annual
convention of the American Fedora
ton of Organizations for the Hard Of
Hearing, Inc, which will meet here
June 1928. Approximately 500 dele
gates are expected.