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Evening star., 1934-10-22

Henry Ford, is likely to win In the
sixteenth district.
Eighth District D0ubtfuI.

Henry Ford, is likely to win In the
sixteenth district.
Eighth District Doubtful.
One of the doubtful districts Is the
eighth, where Representative Hart,
Democrat, Is seeking to succeed him
self. It was In that district, In q by
election to fill vacancy three or four
years ago, that the first evidence Of
the big swing Of the farmers away
from the Republican party manifested
itself strongly. This year the Repub-
licans have an excellent candidate
against Hart, Fred L. Crawford, who
may turn the district back to the
Republican column. The other doubt
full districts are the second and the
fifteenth.
The Republicans are looking to
Michigan as the State east Of the
Mississippi to lead the swing toward
Republicanism again. They not only
count on making material gains in the
House delegation, but also on re-elect-
ing Senator Vanoenberg. despite the
avalanche Of Government money sent
into the State for relief and farm ben
efits. The candidates Of the G. o. p.
are telling the voters that in the end
they will have to pay far more in taxes
for these benefits than the State will
ever get out of them, and their money
will be used to help other States, not
Michigan.
Evening star., 1934-10-22

@. o. p. ballots would stick in the
coming election.
It is here that most Of the cases
on relief are found, estimated as high
as $1,000. Nearly half Of these are
colored people. and while they voted
largely Democratic two years ago
they seem to be coming back into the
Republican fold. In the first district
the Republicans have nominated O
colored man, Charles A. Roxborough
to run against the Democratic Repre-
sentative Sandowski, Pole. There Is
no chance for Roxborough to win, but
he is an efficient organizer among his
people and may do a lot to hold them
In line all over the city.
The present Michigan House dele
cation is made up Of 10 Democrats
Republicans and there is va
cancy, in the third district, due to
the death of the late Representative
Hooper. q Republican. Only four OF
the districts the first, fourth, eleventh
and fourteenth, are looked upon as
surely Democratic this year. The Re-
publicans are given the edge in 10
districts, and in the other 3 dis
tricts there are real battles, with
chances favoring some Of the Re-
publicans. None of the six incumbent
Republicans are expected to loose.
The Republican gains. therefore, may
run from four to seven districts In
this State. Clyde Ford, q cousin OF
Evening star., 1934-10-22

quarters. The Interpretation placed
on their visit was that they were get
ting instructions to work In the cam
paign.
Senator Couzens, Republican pro-
gressive, seemingly is keeping alooi
from the present campaign. He Is
an individualist in political matters
and rather q rugged one at that. His
son, the mayor Of Detroit, a non
partisan ONCE, is Republican. al
though he, too, Is not very active In
this campaign.
Republicans Comforted.
The Republicans take great deal
Of comfort from the big vote they
polled in the primaries this year, a
compared to the vote in the Demo.
cratic primary. The g. o. p. rolled
up 81 per cent Of the total vote cast
to 80 per cent for the Democratic
candidates. In the congressional dis
tricts, where there were contests fol
nomination, the Republicans polleo
big votes, too, as compared to the
Democrats. The Democrats counter
by saying that in 1882, when they
swept the State, the Republicans
also polled majority Of the votes II
the primary elections, even greater
majority than this year. Neverthe-
less, this year there were real battles
In the Democratic primary. as well a.
in the Republican. and it looks al
though the voters who asked fol
Evening star., 1934-10-22
SPLIT ALLEGIANCE
ISSUE IN MICHIGAN
Vandenberg Opponent Says
He StraddIes New Deal
Stand.
CONTINUED From First Page.)

trust" at Lansing, and saying as
much.
Comstoek, although he had been a
wheel horse for the Democracy in
the days when taking Democratic
nominations was simply pain, was
running the Democratic party and its
chances, according to the Lacy sup
porters. They say today he was
doing everything wrong" from his
appointments to Office on down the
line to the per cent sales tax which
is in vogue here and which is called
the "Comtax"
The Republicans have put forward
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
The Balance Must Shift!

DAY in and day out the Communist Party
~ has hammered away at this funda-
mental political truth: The united front
of workers of all shares of opinions will
beat back the offensive of the employers,
will defeat rising fascism. Such united
front can speedily group about itself the
allies of the working class the poor and middle
farmers and the lower middle class and intel
lectuals of the cities.
We Communists have further pointed out that
certain sections of the Socialist Party leadership
have consistently refused to accept the offers for
united action extended by the Communist Party.
These people have always sought-and still seek
a united front with the So-called liberal" wing
Of the ruling class the La Guard1as ETC.. and with
the officisldom Of the American Federation of
Labor. Such a united front, we have insisted
will only surrender the rights of the workers to
the capitalist class, Will actually pave the way to
fascisn. Such. we have stated, is the policy of
the lesser evil" which brought the workers of
Germany and Austria the terror of fascism.
Today we have admission of this from the lips
Of the Socialists themselves. Speaking of the re-
cent united front agreement which the italian So
cialst and Communist Parties recently signed, Will
liam M. Feigenbaum writes in the New Leader, Of
fetal order of the Socialist Party, in the issue
OF Saturday, Sept. %:
Pietro Nonni an Italian SOcialist-Ed.I writes
explaining that with the signing of the pact THE
WHOLE FACE OF THE ANTI-FASCIST
STRUGGLE CHANGES. Hitherto, with the bit
ter hostility of the Communists facing them, the
Concentration 1.-THE Socialist group in PariS-Ed.1
tended to seek allies among liberals and those to
whom democracy is an end in itself. With the
pact THE BALANCE SHIFTS TO THE
WORKING CLASS, AND ON THAT BASIS THE
WAR WILL BE WAGED FROM NOW ON" (Our
emphasis-Ed).
THE above quotation from their own organ is
l something for every Socialist worker to take to
heart. The conclusions for the United States are
obvious. Here the Socialist Party National Exec
utive Committee has either turned down or post
poned the building of the united front between
the S. P. and the Communist Party On the other
hand, however, the columns of the New Leader
have been open to William Green Matthew VOL
and Mayor LaGuardia have been the invited guests
at q Socialist demonstration
1t is high time that "the whole face of the
antfascist struggle shall change. Let us say here
too, that 'the balance shifts to the working class.
and en- that basis the war will be waged from now
on"
There is not moment to lose Climaxed by
the first concentration camp in the history of
American struggles there has been reign of ter
ror unleashed against the working class unparalleled
in any other period of cur history. Only united
action of all tolers can defeat this growing wave
Of fascist reaction.
Forward to united action!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

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shire. 1t is clear that the added
statement in Germans third person
morning announcement, that what
ever course is followed, the strikers
will proceed in orderly, disciplined
manner, in accordance with instTuc-
tons from strike headquarters and
pursuant to the decision of the OK
ccutive board Of the U. T. w" fore
shadows the issuance of an unequi-
vocal call to end the strike, as soon
as the proper sell-out verbiage can
be agreed upon.
1t is clear that only the mechani-
cal strike confirmation of the u. T..
w. executive council, headed by
President Thomas F. Mcmahon
(W2o opposed the strike in the re-
cent unica convention) remains to
seal one Of the worst A. F. of L. at
tempted sell-outs in the history Of
the predatory New Deal. 1T was
pointed out, however, that the strike
cannot be called off until the ex-
ecutive council meets. The council
was summoned by wire last night
the minute the Winant boards re-
port was available and it should he
able to meet in Washington tonight,
or tomorrow morning :" The U.
T. W. release, made the morning
lclcTing Germans boast, declared
the truth is that at this moment
We have the strike Won"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
Report Of Textile Mediation Board
Passes Ouer Central Strike Issues

The report of Roosevelt's Textile
Mediation Board which was released
to the press yesterday, passes over
all the central issues of the strike.
1t admits that the workers have
genuine grievances over low wages
and the inhuman stretch-out sys-
TEN, but the Boards only conclusion
is that more thorough study must
be made Of the industry. 1t orders
the strikers to go back to their
jobs without offering them a single
concession. Its solution is the
! typical New Deal formula of set
ting up new Impartial" board of
three, having powers and duties in
the textile field similar to those
exercised by the Steel Labor Rela-
tionS Board. In other words, they
propose the strike be killed, and at
some future date the new board
will issue new report which will
turn down the workers demands
for higher wages and the abolish
ment of the Stretch-out.
An analysis of the text of the re-
port reveals the basic contradic-
tons of the capitalist system of
production and distribution The
report itself has no new factual ma
terial. It's figures are taken from
the anti-labor report of the NRA
Research and Planning Division is
sued last summer and figures from
the United Textile Workers Union
which refuted this brief for the tex
tile manufacturers.
The Mediation Board admits
that according to the figures of
the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
the average wage paid in the cot
ton textile industry has since
1921 been below that paid in any
other major industry-at some
periods not more than a half of
the average for all manufacturing
industries. Hours of work have
been long and the conditions of
work for other reasons have fire.
gently been bad"
The Board does not go beyond
this statement of generalized aver
age statistics. But figures of the
U. T. w. illustrate the miserable
conditions and low wages of the tex
tile workers. The facts of the stu
alton show that the industry has
failed to absorb unemployed workers
to the extent that was promised
under the code agreement. Wages
are too low to afford living wage
Living costs, especially food ano
clothing prices as we'll as house
rents and other payments to tbs
textile bosses have increased since
the NRA code was adopted. The
provisions in the code for excep-
tons to the minimum wage have
been so Unanswered that many
workers are receiving minimum
wages. And the minimum wage
has become the maximum wage, ST.
a week in the South and S13 il
the North.
In answer to these facts, tht
Mediation Board cites the conten.
ton of the manufacturers that thu
cost of raw materials has risen, anc
that the industry as whole is op.
Grating on an Improbable basis
This argument is refuted by thu
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bitrate. And again nothing hap
pened. Tens of thousands Of
workers were fired, and the board
slept blissfully through the sum-
mer.
We thus see that the proposal
to set up a new board is an out
and-out proposal to break the
strike. Suppose a new board is
picked 1t will then proceed to
study the situation while the tex
tile workers will find the stretch
out becoming worse and worse, and
their pay envelopes thinner. After
some time, the board will then re-
peat what the N. R. A. Research
and Planning Division has already
said and what the Textile Code
Authority claims. Statistics will
be cited to show that the manu-
faoturers cannot pay higher wages
that textiles is a sick industry
and that wage increases must wait
upon the return of general pros
perity. The workers will be asked
to bear the brunt of the crisis
while the bosses pocket increased
profits.
1t is no wonder then, that Roose-
welt and Labor Secretary Perkins
acclaimed the findings of the
Mediation Board. 1t has just the
right tinge of liberalism" and
'impartiality." 1t does not crudely
denounce the demands of the
strikers. But it is a trap for the
workers-if they let themselves be
deceived again by promises of in
vestigations, arbitration and the
like-promises that will be forgot
ten the hour the strike is broken.
1t is also no surprise that the
leaders of the U. T. W. who had
the strike rammed down their gull
lets by the rank-and-file should
indicate that there appear to be
no obstacles on their part to &C
cepting the report as the basis for
ending the strike. These labor lieu
tenants of the textile bosses have
been waiting for this opening
which gives them chance to sell
out the strike while appealing to
the workers to wait for the new
boards decisions.
This attempt of the leaders of
the U. T. w to betray the workers
to the tender mercics of the tex
tile magnates must be defeated by
mass pressure from the picket
lines. The answer to the strike
breaking report Of the Mediation
Board and of the efforts of Roose-
velt to engineer sell-out lies
in spreading the strike, in
Strengthening the picket lines, and
in maintaining the original de-
mands of the workers.
1t is the prime duty of every
militant worker and of every Com
munist to expose this vicious at
tempt to break the strike. If the
strike is broken, that will mean a
defeat for every worker, employed
or unemployed throughout the
country. But vic ory-which can
be won-will mean a great blow
against the plans of Roosevelt and
the capitalists to solve the crisi:
at the expense of the living stand
ards of the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

SAN FRANCISCO. Sent. 21-
Union members of the Dollar Line
ships. President Taft and Presi-
dent Wilson, struck here yesterday
against the continued employment
Of scabs recruited during the recent
West Coast marine S rike.
One thousand Iongshoremen
thew a picket line around the Dol
lar Line dock and stopped any
movement Of cargo from the ,Iock,
n support Of the seamen'5 strike.
The arbitration board of the West
Coast settlement is dallying and
holding back is decision until The
men are scattered around the world.
The seamen are following the policy
Of the Marine Workers Industrial
Union to strike the scabs off the
chips while arbitration is pending.
Supposedly the scahs were to be
dismissed during this period and
all the strikers rehirad.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

NEW YORK.-With the 1888
agreement expiring on Oct. l.
Joseph P. Ryan, presidens of the
International Longshoremen's AS
ISOLATION, is negotiating with the
New York Shipping Association for
new contract, providing for a 30
hour week, 81 an hour and $3.50
for overtime, instead of the 44-hour
week, IS cents an hour and $1.20
for overtime, specified in the old
agreement.
The bosses are asking a ten cen S
an hour cut in pay.
Organized rank and file groups
in large number of I. L. A. New
York locals are in opposition to the
Ryan negotiations. They view these
negotiations as an indication that
Ryan viii win victory by COM
promising for the maintenance Of
the present scale.
The rank and file groups are call
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pressure which is being exerted to
step down the disclosures.
Direct Intervention by Roosevelt
officials (Secretary of State Hull
and Secretary of Commerce Roper
personally did this last week. has
cea2ed-but industrialists outside
the munitions business are under
stooo to be putting on the heat"
with highest officials. They are
urging that the munitions investi-
cations disclosure of bribery, cor
ruption, etc, attendant upon the
export of arms, especially in South
America, is hurting American
business" in everything from sew
ing machines to lip sticks.
The Committee has cut it's staff
from &c TO Is investigators. It is
freely admitted that it would need
100 investigators to do complete
job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

enormous increase in profits of the
textile magnates since the incep-
ton Of the NRA.
According to the Labor Research
Association the net profit record of
certain northern and outhern tex
tile companies in the recent period
was as follows:
For the first six months of 1894,
net profits were reported by the
following: Industrial Rayon Corp,
$1,079,O00; Pacific Mills, $89O,000;
Kendall Co., $413,0OO; Belding Hem
ingway Co.; $266,000.
The Mediation Board handles the
problem of the stretch-out system
in the same impartial" way 1t
points out that the workers must be
protected from an improper in
creae in the work load" But the
Board defends the manufacturers
by citing "the numerous and often
incalculable factors that must be
taken into consideration in reach
ing the proper result"
We thus see that behind its i'm
partial front the Mediation Board
evades the issues of stretch-out,
hours and wages, and violations Of
labor provisions. On the question
of union recognition, it takes an
out and-out, strike breaking stand.
It claims that IAN industry wide
collective agreement between the
employers as group and the
United Textile Workers is not at
this time feasible" 1t proposes the
strike breaking scheme of "col-
lective dealing on PLAINTIFF
plant basis" This is the old trick
of splitting the ranks of the work
ers, opening the way to company
unions, and driving them back to
unfavorable individual settlements.
The textile strikers are prom
ised nothing more than future in
vestigations, and the manufacturers
are politely requested to take the
strikers back without discrimina-
ton" Every striker knows that
the bosses will promise this, and
then proceed to blacklist every mil
liant worker. The history of every
strike under the New Deal proves
this conclusively. The Weirton
strikers, the workers at the Budd
plant in Philadelphia and the
truck drivers in Minneapolis were
also lured back to work on the
promise that there would be no
discrimination. In these cases and
in scores of others, militant work
erS were Immediately blacklisted
or Disseminated against in other
ways.
What of the new board that is
proposed? The proposal is the
same kind of chicanery that was
used to trick the steel and auto
mobile workers. An Automobile
Labor Board was set up-and the
workers were blacklisted, fired. and
Speeded-up. The Automobile Board
no longer even makes the pretense
that it is studying these questions
1t has become defunct 1t Will BIZ
dragged out again only when 6
new automobile strike threatens.
The steel Labor Relations Boarc
was also set up to study and ar.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

ing upon the lockers to be ready
for action if the owners do not
grant the increased wage demands.
Ryan is talking strike but has done
nothing to prepare the men on the
docks for such action, they sta e.
The questions of conditions,
larger gangs. ETC., are raised BY the
rank and file groups as of great
est importance. Ryan has side
stepped these annually. in spite of
the fact that these ques ions are
closest to the lockers. the rank
and file committee announced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
What Is Being Done i?

IRON the first days of the textile strike
the Daily Worker, speaking officially
for the Communist Party, has emphasized
the urgent need for nationwide solidarity
actions in support of the textile workers.
Since then, in one form or another, we
hammered away daily on the increasingly greater
need for such support.
We have called for protest resolutions and tee-
grams against each individual case of terror we
have urged protest meetings and demons. rations;
We called for active work by the Communists and
militant workers to prepare sympathy and local
general strikes to demand the right of the textile
workers to organize, strike and picket; we have
called upon our comrades and on workers organi-
"a ions to undertake the gathering of relief
Possibly more has been done in response to our
proposals than has been reported to the Daily
Worker. Certainly in view of the increased efforts
to break the strike by means of terror, more much
more, must be done.
We urge all workers organizations and all mill
tant workers, including Communist Party mem
bers units sections and Dis riots to report all ac-
tvties taken in support of the textile strikers to
textile strikers to greater effort and at the same
time, stimulate broader solidarity actions
Specifically, to emphasize the importance which
the Political Bureau attaches to thee reports We
request the leading comrades of the four concen-
tration districts, the districts in heavy industry
Chicago, Detroit Cleveland and Pittsburgh, to re-
port Immediately end in full, to the Daily Worker
Tell us what is being done!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
Demands
Ignored
An Editorial
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Continued from Page y
division in the ranks of the
strike.
But it is true that the
Southern mills are the stra-
tegic point, since the en-
ployers are concentrating
their terrorism there, and
are increasing it with new
attacks and killings.
Therefore, all support and
protest should be concen-
trated against the Southern
terrorism and the fascist
concentration camps in the
Georgia strike area.
The Roosevelt inquiry
does not end the strike. On
the contrary it emphasizes
the burning need for sweep
ing the mass actions Of the
pickets to greater militancy.
Keep the mills closedl Re-
ject arbitration"
Spread the strike until the
demands are granted. No re-
turn to work until the de-
mands are granted!
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CONTINUED from Page y
investigate the steel and shipbuild-
ing industries, backbone of the
munitions game, stares them in
the face. 1t has not yet been de-
termined just how far the Com
mittee is willing to go into these
indus5ries-but even should i. de-
cide to get to the bottom, it is
now admitted, it could not do SO
without additional funds. The
Committee is prepared to ask for
more money as soon as Congress
convenes but getting it is an
other question, in view Of the great
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22


1t. Col. B. c. Cess, head of the
Lake Erie Chemical Co., who was
head of the Chemical Warfare
Service of the First and Second
Armies Of the A. E., F. today
boldly defended his operations. He
declared he is "the best friend
labor has, when he sells tear gas
and other material with which SCI
dicrs, strikebreakers, and private
armies suppress peaceful labor
demonstrations. His catalogue
showed photograph of the evac-
uation of the Bonus Marc...ers Of
1882 from the National Capitol
(two we're killed. with his products.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

this will become permanent and systematic feature
Of Party activity that this will become the chief
method of recruiting into the Party.
Bring into the Party the best strikers the best
picketers the militant leaders in the ranks Of the
working class. Negro masses and toiling farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

to be abolished. Walters and rccm stew
ards on passenger ships, ss5.
Overtime in all department, rs cents
an hou~.
Three watches Of eieht-hour day on eli
ships in ell departments. with overtime
pay for all work beyond a hours a week
Recognition Of united trent ships COM
mittee and right OF men to Join union
Of choice
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

Our Readers Must Spread the
Daily Worker Among the Members
of All Mass and Fratcrnal Organ
isations AS a Political Task of First
Importance!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
100000 Seamen
To Strike Oct. 5

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Gas Sales Barred
At Arms Inquiry

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Roosevelt Calls
Strikers to Return

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