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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
Relief League
Maps Fight on
Cuts, Layoffs
First Convention of the
r. W. L. Represents
1000 NY. Members

NEW YORK. = Seventy delegates
and fraternal delegates adopted q
program of struggle against work
relief wage cuts, for jobs, and ade-
quate cash relief, at the first con-
vention of the four months old Re
lief Workers League held yesterday
afternoon at the Irving Plaza.
The convention included 81 regu-
lar delegates, elected by the locals
in the Bronx, West Washington
Market, All Trades Local, Browns
vile, Harlem, East Side, Manhattan,
and West End, in addition to frater-
nal delegates, with 1000 members.
The organizational program adopted
by the convention called for selec-
ton Of job concentration points, and
conducting of recruiting drive. The
program calls for each local to set
up an organizing committee to
strengthen the job organization and
to lead the recruiting work. Neigh
borhood committees are to be
formed to recruit relief workers in
the neighborhoodS and to fight for
relief for those already laid off.
The convention proposes that
neighborhood united front confer
ences be called, under the jurisdic-
ton of the United Action Commit
tee Of 100, so that united front &C
ton on neighborhood scale can be
organized. A resolution was adopted
for participation in the May First
demonstration. The relief workers
are to mobilize at Battery Place at
$3.50 am. together with the Unem-
ployed Councils, to march to Union
Square.
The convention passed resolu-
ton calling upon the locals to vote
for utilization to the Unemployment
Councils, after the city executive to
act after the locals vote.
The report of president Davidow
showed that in the four months of
its existence the R.W.L. has gained
1000 members and has established
ten locals. Not only has the R.WL.
been the only organization among
the manual workers which has
fought against the wage cuts and
layoffs, Dayidow reported, but it has
won many demands in the localities,
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
Seaman Auto
Strikers Find
They're Duped
Leaders OK Agreement
Workers Had Turned
Down 3 Times
Special to the Daily Worker

MILWAUKEE,, April 22.-Seaman
Body Corporation workers, return
ing to work as the result of the re-
cent settlement of their 7-week
strike, discovered Friday morning
that scabs had been called back
on Wednesday, violating the agree
ment of the strike settlement.
The workers Immediately called
meeting in the departments and
after considerable discussion, Bo-
risch, a union official made a Is
minute speech telling the workers
to quit arguing and go back to
work" The workers organized COM
nlittees which went to Seaman's Of
flee. Seaman stated that he knew
nothing about the agreement that
they were talking about, and the
only one he knew of was the first
agreement which he had signed.
This is the agreement which the
strikers had turned down three times
during the strike.
The workers discovered they had
been tricked by their union officials
in the strike settlement and the
agreement they had signed was not
the one signed by Seaman. The
whole shop which had come, back
to work at Tbs in the morning did
not begin work until 1880 but they
demanded pay for the four hours
during which their meeting was held
and negotiations attempted. They
won their demand and were paid
for this time.
One department demanded wage
increase above the so cents an hour
minimum and won a 5 cents an
hour increase.
On the same day, a union meet
ing of the United Auto Workers
Federal Union No. 1909 was held.
The rank and file proposed to Gust
Frank Schultz, PRESIDENT of the union
A 4ong and stormy meeting ensued.
lasting until midnight, and Schutz's
scalp was saved by the presiding
officials refusal to put the question
to a vote. There is great unrest
among the Seaman workers as a
result of the sell-out and the tao
tics of the union officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
.R.R. Union Heads
Try to Bolster
Faith In Roosevelt
Talk of Strike Ballot,
But Act to Duplicate
Auto SeII-Out
MEN ARE INDIGNANT
Lays Basis for Endless
Conferences

WASHINGTON, April %.
With the carrying through
of the extention of the 10 per
cent wage cut for railroad
workers now directly in the
hands of President Roosevelt,
the railroad labor executives
Yesterday in an interview
with the capitalist press strove to
raise the faith of the workers in
President Roosevelt.
I'VE have no fault to find with
President Roosevelt or with Co
ordinator Eastman" declared A. F.
Whitney, president of the Railway
Labor Executives Association.
This statement was made after
Whitney talked of taking a strike
ballot, not in order to call a strike.
but to prove that the railroad
workers are not in favor of having
their pay cuts extended.
Our only alternative appears to
call for a strike ballot" he said,
in order to prove our point in this
matter, and if this is done there
can be but one answer from the
men who have been receiving such
a beggarly stipend"
Whitney told how much he hated
to mention even the word strike. ;"
saying:
1T seems tragic that our men
must be driven into a corner and
forced to show their teeth in order
to get justice at the hands of the
American railroads, but there ap-
pears to be nothing else to do"
Immediately following this state
ment, Mr.. Whitney completely abb
solves Roosevelt from blame. though
1t is a known fact that Roosevelt
has been meeting constantly with
the railroad bosses, carving out
their every wish. Furthermore
Roosevelt declared in his letter to
Joseph B. Eastman insisting on
extending the wage cut to January
l, 1885, that his main object is TO
keep the railroads in private
hands" That is to say, he wants
to preserve the profits of the rail-
road bosses, cost what it may in
wage cuts and unemployment to the
railroad workers.
According to Whitney, there are
l,40O,00 railroad workers. with
100000 out of work. Some 100000
railroad workers earn from IS to
81 week.
Roosevelt is setting up a cabinet
commission consisting of Secretaries
Perkins and Roper, and ATTORNEY
General Cummings, to investigate
the railroads, but in reality to drag
on negotiations and to prepare 10
defeat strike action on the part of
the workers. At the same time. the
machinery of the Railway Labor
Act is being oiled up, to delay and
thwart strike. The Railway Labor
Act provides arbitration for a pc
Rod Of 30 days after total disagree
ment, and prohibits all strikes dur
ing that period.
lsee editorial on page 8 on the
railroad situation)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
United May 1st
Demonstrations

NEW YORK. - Union Square,
2:30 to 5 p. m, preceded by two
monster paraoes.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Capitol
Park, facing Jefferson County Jail.
DETROIT.-Grand Circus Park.
CLEVELAND, Ohio.-Public So,
at 3 pm.
CHICAGO.-Grant Park.
PATERSON, N. J.-Sandy Hill
Park, at noon.
ST. LOUIS, Mold Court
House, Broadway q Market at
4 pm.
BOSTON = Charles st. Mall,
Boston Common at IL o'clock.
AKRON, Ohio-Perkins Square
at 2 pm.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. = Berger's
Park.
RACINE, Wis. = Lake Front
Park.
VIRDEN, Ill.-City Hall.
BELLEVILLE, Ill.-In front of
Court House.
ZEIGLER, 1ll.-City Park.
PEORIA, Ill,Court House So.
OAKLAND, Calf. = Chabet
Park, 18th g. Jefferson st., at 2
pm.
EAST OAKLADN, Calif.-Mass
meeting at 8 pm.
LYNN, Mass.-Lynch Common
at 1 pm.
SALEM, Mass.-Derby Square
at pm.
PEABODY, Mass. = Main st.
corner Walnut at 7:30 pm.
NASHUA, New Hampshire. -
O'Donnell Hall at pm.
DAYTON, Ohio.-Lbrary Park
at 4 pm.
LOS ANGELES, Cal. = Plaza,
North Main and Sunset at IL
o'clock.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. = indie
pendence Square.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23

Raise fighting slogans in all
shops, in all labor exchanges. Fly
the red flag over the factories, on
bile flagpolesl Fight against
forced participation in the Nazi
celebrations; form working class
May Day committees. Garry the
spirit of resistance, of proletarian
hatred and indignation into the
ranks of the Labor Front and of
all the fascist mass organizations!
Down with the fascist die
tatorship; Down with the labor
slavery law!
Down with the bloody terror!
Free Thaelmann and all our
imprisoned comrades.
Down with the imperialist war
makers; for defense of the Soviet
Union,
Long live the dictatorship of
the proletariat, Soviet Germany.
Long live Socialism,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
Observation-Disclosures
Demonstration, Is Call Of German C.P.

BERLIN, April 100 BY MaiD.-
May Day, which Hitler has sought
to steal from tn eworking class by
making it a national celebration
as compulsory holiday with Nazi
parades, will be a day of revolution
airy struggle for the workers of
Germany.
The Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Germany, in a
manifesto broadcast illegally by the
tens of thousands of copies through
out Germany, calls the workers
to fighting demonstrations.
The Communist call follows, in
part:
Workers in all the shops, work
ers in all proletarian districts,
everywhere, prepare for Red May
Day of struggle. Prepare to stage
independent mass demonstrations
and manifestations of all kinds
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
Minneapolis Bosses Fear
May First Meet; T.U.U.L.
Urged Unity on May Day
Stresses Demand For
Immediate Enactment
Of H.R. 1898

NEW YORK.-Calling upon all
affiliated unions to come out on
the streets on May First the Trade
Union Unity League issued the fol-
lowing statement:
To all members Of the revolutionary
trade unions:
To all rank and file members of the
A. F. of L.:
To all members of independent
unions:
To all organized and unorganized
workers, Negro and white work
ers; youth and women workers:
The tradition of the great years
of struggle during which the eight
hour day was born out of the first
May Day celebrated by the Amer
lean workers in 1886, is being car
ried forward to greater heights by
the American workingclass today.
May Day, 1884 finds the American
workers in the midst of another
giant strike wave, involving scores
of thousands of workers, against
the new slavery of the New Deal"
for the right to organize into unions
of their own choosing, for higher
wages, for unemployment relief and
unemployment insurance at the ex-
pense of the bosses and the gov
eminent.
The strike wave of 1888, in which
a million and a quarter struck, will
be exceeded by the fierce working
class struggles of this year. May
Day comes in the midst of these ris-
ing struggles. On May Day the
workers must be on the streets, in
demonstration for the demands
around which SO many scores of
thousands of workers have struck;
for higher wages, for the right to
organize in any unions they choose;
for unemployment relief, and for
unemployment insurance at the ex-
pense of bosses and government.
1t is May Day of demonstration
against Fascism and war; for the
defense of the only country in
which the workers rule-the Soviet
Union.
Make this May Day real fight
ing day of the toiling masses of the
United States.
Join hands with workers through
the world on this day of interna-
tional workingclass solidarity.
Down tools; come out and dem
onstrate on May Day for:
Higher wages and shorter hours.
For the passage of the Work
ers' Unemployment Insurance Bill
CHR 1888.
For immediate cash relief.
Against compulsory arbitration,
for the right to strike. against COM
pany unions, for the right of Or
ganization, for recognition of the
union of the workers choice.
For equality for the Negro toiler;
against all forms of discrimination;
for the right to all jobs at equal
pay.
Against Fascism.
For solidarity with the German
workers and the freedom of Thael-
mann and all anti-Fascist fighters
in Hitler's torture chambers.
Against imperialist war prepara-
tions, for the defense of the Soviet
Union and Soviet China.
NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COM
MITTEE. TRADE UNION UNITY
LEAGUE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
Offer LID. Help
To Auto Strikers
MESA. Leaders Refer
Matter to Executive
Special to the Daily Worker

oPSNAfbA W OduJ hOIkeT
DETROIT, April 21.-A committee
OF the International Labor Defense
appeared last night before a meet
ing Of the District Committee of the
Mechanics Educational Society.
The LID. Committee, represented
by A. Gerlach and A. Mezerick, pro-
posed that the LID. extend its legal
aid to the striking tool and die and
Michigan Stove workers organized
in the MESA. The representative
of the LID. also proposed to de-
velop a joint campaign against
gangster on the picket line and
against police terror.
In connection with the increasing
police terror under the new regime
of Police Commissioner Heinrich
Pickert, the LID. asked the Me.
S.A. District Committee to join in
a fight against the banning Of the
May First Grand Circus Park meet
ing. The chairman at the meeting
was willing to consider the proposals
made by representatives of the
LID, but Matthew Smith, secre-
tary Of the MESA, who continues
his secret deals with the N.RA.
Labor Board, insisted the matter be
referred. and that the LID. will be
informed by letter what the stand
of the organization will be on the
proposals made by the LID. repre-
sentatives. The LID. decided, in
view of the attitude taken by Smith,
to appeal directly to the member
ship of the MESA. The LID.
committee will appear at meeting
of shop stewards which will be held
Monday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23

that zausner intends to deliver the
membership to the Socialist Party
demonstration.
Meet Called Wednesday
Local 400 decided to call spe-
cial meeting on April Is. This
meeting will take up officially the
question Of participating in the
United Front May Day demonstra-
ton. Under no circumstances will
the local consider a May First DEM
onstration led by zausner who is
hated by every member of the local.
zausner and his gang recently pre-
ferred charges against Local 499
with the intention of revoking the
charter of said local.
Rank and file members in the
other locals will demand their con-
stitutional right to decide in what
demonstration they shall partici-
pate. The Painters Rank and File
Protective Association, composed of
rank and file members affiliated
with District Council No. 9, decided
to participate in the United Front
demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
IriShRevOlutionary
Leader Shows Irish
Path to Freedom
Sean Murray to Speak
in Many Cities
of u. S.

NEW YORK.-A large and en-
thusiastic audience cheered Sean
Murray, leader of the Communist
Party of Ireland, as he spoke on
the problems of Irish national lib
Grafton in Bryant Hall Friday night
Reviewing the history of Ireland S
ancient struggle for freedom, he
showed how the revolutionary will
of the Irish workers and peasants
had been thwarted again and again
by the compromises Of the Irish
capitalist classes.
The only road to freedom for Ire
land, he declared, was the road
pointed out by Jim Connolly, the
road of struggle led by the Irish
working class, in alliance with the
working farmers, against the i'm
perialists and their agents in the
Irish upper class.
Comrade Murray started out Fri
day night on tour of principal U.
S. cities, where he will speak on
the Irish question. His itinerary is
as follows:
April 81 to Is, Boston; Connecti-
cue. April rs to %; Philadelphia,
April 81 to May /; Baltimore, May
2 and 8; Pittsburgh, May to g.;
Cleveland. May 10 to IL; Chicago,
May II to 20; st. Louis, May %
and %.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
General Strike
Creets Spanish
ascist Meet
Fierce Fighting RACES
AS Police Attack
United Front

MADRID, April %. Madrid is
tied up by an illegal 24-hour gen.
eral strike, and workers are fighting
police and soldiers attempting to
smash mass demonstrations in
many parts of the city.
The strike, in which Communist.
Socialist, Anarchist and Syndicalist
workers have formed an anti-fascist
united front, is in protest against
the mass rally at Escorial Of 10000
members of the fascist League of
Catholic Youth, headed by Jose
Marie Gil Robes.
Subway, street car and taxi traf-
fic were para1yzed; walters, bakers,
and practically all other workers
who work on Sunday came out on
strike. Strikes are reported to have
taken place in many other parts of
Spain, but reports on these are still
incomplete.
Firing has been going on all day
in many parts of the city between
state forces and demonstrating
workers. Several are known to have
been killed, and many wounded.
Workers and farmers at the vii
lage of Ciempozuelos attempted to
stop train carrying delegates to
the fascist convention, and fought
with civil guards and the fascist
passengers. Two persons were re-
ported wounded.
The general strike and mass dem
onstrations followed a series Of
struggles beginning Friday when
the reactionary amnesty bill, free
ing 5000 monarchist and other re-
dictionary prisoners, but no workers,
was voted in the Cortes. Police at
tackled mass demonstrations Of pro-
test, wounding many.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
Painters in Local 499 Plan
To Join United May Day Meet


NEW YORK. = Painters District
Council No. 8, led by the notorious
Philip zausner, utilizing the grow
ing rehabilitation among the paint
ers, and trying to win the conf
dence of the workers, has decided
to call a general strike on May /,
and through the District Council
machine zausner is trying to force
the local unions to participate in
the Socialist Party led march. Oast
year he made application in S. P.
but was given years probation.
S. P. leaders feared objection from
rank and file. Now he's trying to
make good.)
The painters are ready to demon
strate on May l, but are certainly
opposed to the proposal that the
corrupt District Council machine of
racketeers and gangsters led by
zausner and Jake the Bum should
lead them in the demonstration.
This local has about TOO mem
beers. When they heard of zaus-
ner's plan, they treated it as a joke.
The Socialist Party chairman was
actually afraid to tell the painters
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
Workers Fraternal.
Orders Plan Fight
For Workers Bill
Detroit A. F. L. Unions
Endorse Workers
Bill H.R. 1898

NEW YORK.-Five hundred dele
gates from fraternal organizations
met at the Central Opera House
yesterday to plan a city-wide cam
paign for the support of the Work
ers' Unemployment and Social In
surance Bill. The delegates from
the organizations participating
pledged themselves to secure from
their organizations active support
to the Workers Bill, and to support
by a full mobilization of their mem
bership the delegates from the con-
ference who will demand that
Mayor LaGuardia and the city ad-
ministration officially endorse the
Workers Bill.
Congressman Lundeen of Mime
sofa, who spoke on the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill III. r. 1899, which he in
PRODUCED into Congress, after
briefly tracing the history of the
bill as it was originally drafted by
the Unemployment Councils, stated
This has variously been called the
Lundeen Bill; it is not the Lun-
deem Bill-it is the Workers Bill
Lundeen promised the assembled
delegates that he would fight for
the bill in Congress.
Israel Amter, national secretary
OF the Unemployment Councils, who
followed Lundeen as speaker, said,
after explaining to the delegates the
need of mass pressure to bring the
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
Withdraw Relief to
Sacramento Councils

SACRAMENTO, Calf, April o.
Six months ago mass pressure by
the members of the Unemployed
Council forced the Sacramento
County Welfare Department to
agree to furnish $500 worth Of pro-
visions monthly to the Unemployed
Council for distribution among its
600 members.
Under the pretext that the Coun-
Gil sis Communist organization, ("
the department now announces that
on May l it will discontinue this
relief. The workers, who by mass
pressure won this concession, are
now planning to use mass pressure
again to force the department to
continue this relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
Germany Recruits
Youths for Arm,

BERLIN, April 22.-Having en-
barked on complete program of
re-arming, Nazi Germany is pre-
pairing its forces in expectation of
war at near date. Without pub
licity, general orders have been is
sued to all 20-year-old youths to re-
port to military or forced labor
camps for military training, to last
year and a half.
AT the same time one months
furlough, such as is granted SOL
diers Immediately before they are
expected to go into action, has been
ordered for the Storm Troop army
for the month of July.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
Coal Mine Blast Traps
$50 Miners in Bosnia

SARAJEvO, April 22.-Two hun
dred and fifty miners were trapped
in an explosion in the Kakanj coal
mine near Senicia, Bosnia. Bodies
of 81 have been recovered so far.
The explosion, like that in the
Nelson mine at Duchkov, Czecho-
slovakia, in January, when 142
miners were killed, was due to
criminal disregard of safety devices
by the mine owners, permitting the
accumulation of fire-damp, which
exploded when miner lit cigaret.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
Unions Back
ScOttsbOrO
Meet Apr. Is
Ann Burlak to Speak at
Boston Protest
Demonstration

NEW YORK.-The citywide DEM
onstration called for April Is Inter
national Scottsboro Day, to protest
the torture of the Scottsboro boys
and demand their immediate re-
lease has been endorsed by the
Steel g. Metal Workers Industrial
Union, United Shoe 81 Leather
Workers Union, Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, Furniture
Workers Industrial Union, United
Council of Working class Women,
and the Young Communist League,
it was announced yesterday by the
international Labor Defense.
The demonstration, in which
workers from all parts of the city
will participate, will be held in
Harlem at 5 o'clock this Wednesday
afternoon. Mobilization points will
be announced tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
Hammer and Sickle
Emblem Is Stolen
For Nasi May Day

BERLIN, April $50 fearful
is Adolf Hitler of the thousands
Of hammer and sickle emblems
of Communism which will be
chalked and painted by revolu-
tionary workers all over Ger
many for May Day, that he has
decided to use the hammer and
sickle on the official design for
the fascist May l celebration.
The Nazi design for May l
has head of Goethe, the fascist
eagle with the swastika cross,
and a hammer and sickle!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
Ann Burlak To Speak at Boston
Protest

BOSTON, April 22.-Ann Burlak,
militant leader of the textile work
ers, will be the main speaker at the
April Is Scottsboro demonstration
at Madison Square, South End,
Warwick and Sterling Streets, at
6 p. m. The workers will march into
the Square in demonstration
starting at o'clock from Douglas
Square, East End.
Protest Meet Called In Capitol
WASHINGTON, D. c., April a.
A mass meeting and demonstration
will be held here, under the aus
pices of the I. L. D., April Is. to
demand the freedom of the Scots
boro boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23

Down tools May l against wage
cuts and for higher wages!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23

under revolutionary slogans, in the
fascist parody of May Day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23

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