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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-29

stop mass diSilluSionnent with the
Steel Labor Board through which
the rank and file demand for &C
ton is finding an immediate outlet.
As an instance Of this can be
cited proposed plans of the A. A.
heads for maintaining at all costs
the peace" presented to the Anal
gamated workers in certain plants
In Mcdonald and Duquesne
plants Of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany. the rank and file forced Tighe
and his assistants to turn down the
company's proffer OF recognition
of union committees as representa-
tives Of only those workers who arc
in the union" But the substitute
plan proposed by Amalgamsted At
torney Charlton Ogburn for the
workers consideration was even
worse,
These proposals began by accept
ing, justifynig, and providing for
the continuance Of the status QUO
Of company unions and their COM
mittees: 1T is agreed that the
company will receive and negotiate,
for the purpose Of collective bar
gaining, with the representatives
Of any organization of its en-
pioyes.
The Tighe proposal continues, of
course, by qualifying the above as
only to apply until there shall be
an election in the plant supervised
by the Steel Board, to determine
by what organization the employees
Of said plant shall be repre-
sented. :"
But the accomplished fact of
company unions and all the at
tendenG sham bargaining" with
employees under such schemes. is
the strongest legal point on which
the steel trust today attacks the
intervention of the Steel Board
In the seven months OF the
Boards existence, that body has or
dered one election out Of the hun
dreds of petitions submitted-We
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-29

of the Party under these conditions
showed more clearly than ever be-
fore the need for real unity.
BEGINNING Of Unity
The first step was made in New
Orleans, where the Communist
Party and Socialist Party united in
the struggle against terror, and for
relief. The united meeting held
there for the support OF the Spanish
workers reused a great deal of
enthusiasm. Other gains showed
the possibilities which lay in the
united action. The next step was
in the starting of united front ne
gotiations between the Share Crop
pers Union of Alabama and the
Southern Tenant Farmers Union of
Arkansas, each with membership
estimated at 10000. The Party fol-
lowed up these steps with appeals
to the S. P. in Birmingham, which
ignored the letters.
Finally, on Dec. 6, at a meeting
of Socialist leaders of five Southern
states, united front agreement
was drawn up with the representa-
tive of the District Bureau of Dis
trict II of the Communist Party
which will take it's place as one of
the most historic steps in the whole
struggle for the unity Of the South
ern masses against oppression.
In a document which serves as
living proof OF the desire of the
rank and file Socialists for unity,
together with many OF the leaders
who are actally in contact with the
masses and willing to put into
practise their expressed demand
for unity, the Socialist leaders
called on the Socialist organiza
tons in all Southern states to
start negotiations Immediately
with the Communist Party on the
following specific issues among
others:
Issues of Struggle
81. The struggle against war and
fascism. against lynching, for dis
banding of the xxx and other fas-
cist bands, against denial of consti-
tutional rights, etc.
%. Election of delegates to the
National Congress for Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance. Wash
ington, Jan. ST. A sustained effort
to have passed the Lundeen I'm
empoyment and Social Insurance
Bill.
SO. Against the New Deal diff
ferential in wages and relief for
Southern labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-29
United Front in South Must Be Center of Struggle

The main task in the deep South
is to weld the iron unity of Negro
and white workers and poor farm
ers in the struggle for higher wages,
against the Bankhead Act, for the
rights of the Negro masses, and
against the growing fascist terror
sweeping through the deep South.
The Communist Party has from
the beginning realized this need,
and has raised the slogans of unity
before the masses as the means Of
effective struggle for the immediate
burning needs, as well as for win
ming the masses for the whole pro-
gram of the Party, which alone can
free the Negro masses, as well as
the White workers and farmers.
The basis for real unity was
established by the wholesale attacks
on the already unbearable stand
ards of the Southern workers
during the length of the crisis The
New Deal further intensified the
exploitation of the workers by legal
izing the "differential" wage, and
by the crop destroying and cropper
destroying Bankhead Act, at the
same time increasing the terror and
lynching against the Negro masses,
and further depriying the Southern
people as a whole of their rights of
free speech, assembly, etc.
Wave of Strikes
The answer of the masses was a
wave Of organization, the building
of the A. F. of L. unions into mass
organizations, and the develop
ment Of the greatest strike wave in
the history of the South alabama
coal and ore strikes, textile strike,
etc). On the farms the Share Crop
pers Union grew in Alabama, began
to lead struggles for the right to
sell their own cotton for the CROP
pers, and the strike for higher
wages for cotton pickers, and
reached membership of some TO-
900, for the first time taking in white
farmers. In Arkansas the Southern
Tenant Farmers League grew as
the expression of the Negro and
white tenants willingness to resist
the attacks of the landlords and
their government.
In all this wave of organization
and struggle the Communist Party
consistently called ON the workers
and farmers to organize solidly, to
struggle militantly, to unite white
and Negro on an equal basis, and
to defeat any attempts on the part
of misleaders to confuse the
struggle in the interests of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-29
Gold Miners Reject
Mayor Rossi's Offer
To Arbitrate Strike

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. %
Mayor Rossi, who achieved an I'M
enviable nation wide reputation as
a strikebreaker during the general
strike here. has received no reply
to date on his offer to act as medi-
ator in the strike of 500 gold miners
in Amador County His qualifica-
ton for settling the strike, he ex-
planned, is the fact that he was born
in Amador County.
The miners have ignored the Of
fer because they know Rossi as a
strikebreaker, and the operators
have ignored it because they are
determined not to deal with the
union.
Meanwhile Timothy A. Reardon,
state director of industrial relations,
has vairly tried every means of per-
suading the workers to return to the
mines, leaving their demands in the
hands of arbitrators. So open was
his Strikebreaking attempt that the
Sacramento Federated Trades Coun-
Gil protested last week, declaring
that sit brings the State of Califor-
MIA under suspicion as strike
breaking agency"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-29
Texas Code
Fight Finds
with Boss
Pecan Sh ellers Face
Hard Battle Against
Winter Hunger

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. "a
With the statement that a study
Of the situation involving the en-
forcement Of the code inaugurated
for the pecan Smelling industry,
must first be made, w. L. Pencke
Of the litigation division Of the N.
r. A. has announced that no pres
ent effort will be made to enforce
the code in this city. Knowing that
no injunction against the code is
needed as long as there are going
to be no prosecutions against vio-
lators of the code, Federal Judge r.
j. Mcmillan did not grant the petit
ton Of the Southern Pecan Smelling
Association and thirty-four other
compliments for such an intunc-
ton.
FL Nogal, rank and file union OF
the shelters, is fighting to enforce
the code. This organization, COM
prised of 1000 members, has been
pledged the cooperation of many
independent local organizations in
addition to various organizations
over the country. The A. F. Of l.
refused to endorse the code, it is
reported.
With winter at hand, the failure
of the N. r. A. to enforce this code
which would have guaranteed the
pecan shelters IS a week and forty
hours, instead of the more n1iser
able is cents per day, which is the
average scale at present, at least
5000 shelters will find themselves
fighting starvation harder thar
ever. Their living conditions deny
many beds to sleep in, much less
food, which is barely enough tc
keep life in the body.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-29

declared; it will reduce the govern
ment cost of caring for the jobless
youths in the C.C.C. camps, and it
will provide the army with "the
right kind of recruits"
The C.C.C. youths have already
been subjected to military training
and jingoistic propaganda. Under
Secretary of War Woodring in an
article early this year in Liberty
described the C.C.C. camps as a
training ground for economic storm
troops" and for social security
against chaos"
The present move to recruit $4,000
iobless youths into the Army is
part of the War Department action
to increase the standing Army to
$4,000 All military services in the
government are rapidly building
themselves to record strength.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-29
ZINOyIEVsK CHANGED TO
KIROVO
Especial to the Daily worker)

MOSCOW, Dec. 28 (By Wireless
The request of the local organiza-
tons and population of the town
Of zinovievsk, in the Ukrainian So
Wet Republic, to change the towns
name to Kirovo was granted by the
Central Executive Committee of the
U. S. S. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-29
TICHE PEACE PLAN
In STEEL INDUSTRY
AIDS WAR PROFITS
Leader of Amalgamated Association Backs
6-Month Truce To insure Smooth Full
fIment OF Government War Orders
BY Tom Keenan,

PITTSBURGH, Pa. Dec. disappearing the line Of
the administration for six-months' truce in the steel n
dustry to insure the smooth fuhment of expected
orders the top leaders of the Amagamated Association
of Iron Steel and Tin Workers doing their utmost to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-29
MILITARISTS PLAN
TO TAKE CCC BOYS
FOR WAR SERVICE
Is Part of Vast U. S. Program of Preparing
for Imperialist War; Strength of Standing
Army to Be Increased to 10000

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.-The United States Army is
considering the recruiting of $4,000 youths from the CCC
camps directly into the army government officials said
yesterday.
This mlitarst move will have two purposes officials
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-29

Workerst Protect Your Families,
In Case of Sickness, accident or DEATH
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-29

Benefits paid since existence:
Sick and Death Benefit: s13, SOC, 100000
Evening star., 1934-11-28

10, 1892, the payments will average
about $12 per subscriber.
The history Of the reduction goes
back to a rate case started by the
commission in 1882, ending in an
order for reduction of 10 per cent
on all classes Of services except null
tiple private branch exchange serv-
ice effective October 10, 1882. The
company appealed to the District Su-
preme Court, but lost. 1t then took
another appeal to the United States
Court Of Appeals for the District.
This appeal is still pending, but
month ago officials of the company
made overtures to the commission for
an agreement under which they
could withdraw their appeal and re-
duce the rates.
Evening star., 1934-11-28

Athens, although in difficult flnan-
cial circumstances. has spent $700 on
an album of pictures of the ancient
present it to II Duce
Mussolini received the representative
of the Athenians with due considera-
ton, expressed his great admiration
and love for the cradle of civilization
and gave the mayor nice state dinner
The newspapers featured the visit,
but fastened to add that Italy is in
a difficult financial position, too, and
cannot float any foreign loans. re-
gardless as how safe they may be.
Swiss Woo Tourists.
One of SwitZerland's main in
dustries is the tourist trade, which has
been severly hit by the fact that
Switzerland, being still on the gold
standard, the number of the Ameri-
can and British visitors has diminished
in an alarming proportion.
The Swiss innkeepers appealed to the
government, pointing out the un-
favorable rate of exchange of the
pound and the dollar might drive
them into bankruptcy.
The Swiss government has given
them permission now to exchange the
British pound sterling at a higher
rate than the official quotation. Thus
while the pound is quoted at the
Geneva stock exchange at Is francs
British visitors to Switzerland can
exchange it at their hotels for 1850.
Evening star., 1934-11-28
INITIATION EVILS
CITED BY SPEAKER
Economist Sees Rocketing Prices
and Stagnated Business if
Congress Acts.

Rocketing prices and stagnated
business will result if the next Con-
sress attempts currency imitation. it
was declared Monday night by Carl
Fast New York economist and adviser
to department store merchants, in an
address on THE Only Recovery" at
Southeastern University.
THE consumer must receive more
goods per dollar, not more empty dol
lars. if recovery is to return" Fast
said in the first of series OF lee
lures under auspices of the Y. M. c. A.
College The gap between wage and
price levels must be bridged."
To restore prosperity. he asserted.
1t will be necessary to lower distribu-
ton and servicing costs in the field
of business and to lower taxes and
the cost Of government. He said
the American people are asking the
Federal Government to do too
much" for them. The States must
do their part, he said, and so must
communities and individuals.
Fast declared the depression really
began in 1914, but was halted by
outbreak of the World War. He said
he predicted the depression in a
book he published in 1917 on The
Coming Credit Crisis" He laid the
blame for the collapse to the mount
ing costs of distribution of goods
due to what he termed "parasitical
appurtenances of the merchandising
system" In the latter category, he
said, we're too many retail stores,
too many unnecessary labor and over
head costs"
The lecture was open to the general
public. but succeeding lectures will
be for those enrolled in the uni
versity's special course on Recovery
Realities" The second lecture will be
given tonight.
Evening star., 1934-11-28

The most remarkable thing in these
proceedings was that Edouard Herriot,
the leader of the Socialists and the
champion of paciflsm in France, de-
nounced Lavals pacifism and urged
the Chamber to vote these credits, not
only because he is a member of the
cabinet but because he realizes that
France must be strong The switching
of HerriOt to the big army" idea was
the determining factor which pre-
vented any opposition to the new ma
tional defense budget.
Pact Talk Dies.
The assassination of the former For
eign Minister Louis Barthou seems to
have put an end, temporarily at least,
to the plans of an Italian French rap
prochement. Laval, who succeeded
Barthou, had announced that he in
tended to follow his predecessor poll
cies and that he would go to Rome
some time this year. But nobody talks
about that visit any longer.
The French are worried about po-
litical developments early next year,
when the Saar plebiscite will be held.
They cannot afford to ALLEVIATE the
sympathy and the support of the Yugo-
slaV government.
MuSSolini. on the other hand, is
fed up ,pith the antics OF the Bel
grade government and has decided
to support Hungary, ,DhiCh Yugo-
Slduid UantS to make the Scapegodt
for the MdrSeiHe assassination,
even at the price OF postpontng the
possibility OF an understanding tDith
France.
MusSolini has promised the Hun
garianS his support against Yugo-
slavia in the same manner the Rus
sian government had promised to sup
port Serbia against Austria in 1914.
AS long as the question of making
Hungary the scapegoat for Alexander S
murder, there is little chance of France
and Italy getting together.
Hull Money Speculation.
Now that Secretary Cordell Hull is
mentioned as a possible Nobel prize
winner for promoting the peace idea
diplomats are speculating whether the
Secretary of State will do the same as
the late French Foreign Minister
Aristide BRAND did with the prize
money. which amounts to about
$4,000.
BRAND had no confidence in
banks and investments. His theory
UaS that he preferred to spend the
money himself rather than let
bankers or promoters spend it for
him.
So, when he received the Nobel
prize, over a million francs in French
currency, he put it in safe, in 1000
franc bills, and took out as much as
he needed.
Evening star., 1934-11-28
1000, 900 PHONE
REFUND PROGRAM
NEAR COMPLETION

Continued From First Page)
Dental exchanges. At present, all
calls above 40 per month cost cents
apiece. In future they will cost AZ
cents. The other difference was to
reduce the cost Of installing a phone
in subscribers home from So to $3.50.
The new rates ordered by the COM
mission and the old rates are as fol-
lows:
For one-party measured resi-
dence service, one-party private
branch exchange service, and one
party measured business service, 360
for the first SO calls, S cents per
call for the next 100 calls, cents
per call for the next so calls and
3 cents per call for all above 200
calls.
The present rate is "a each for the
first so calls, S cents each for the
next 100 calls, Az cents each for the
next so calls, 4 cents each for the
next so calls, 312 cents per call for the
next so and cents per call for all
above $50 calls.
The fiat rate for one-party resi-
dence service. not measured, is re-
duced from s475 per month to $3.50
per month.
For two-party measured residential
service the monthly charge is re-
duced from So so to $225. The charge
for calls above 40 per month is re-
duced from cents apiece to AZ cents
apiece.
For two-party measured business
service, the monthly charge is re-
duced from SO to S2.70, with no
change in the charge for calls above
40 per month.
A monthly charge OF rs cents for
extensions on private telephones is
reduced to so cents.
For semi-public telephones (nickel-
ln-the-slot machines in stores, etc.
the required monthly guarantee is re-
duced from s1.75 to $l.50.
Aggregate Cut About s463,oOo.
The aggregate of these reductions
per annum is estimated at $463 900,
while fiat 10 per cent reduction on
monthly bills would add up to about
SAL 900 per annum, it was estimated.
The new rates go into effect De-
cember II. The company will prob
ably begin on December Is returning
to subscribers checks representing a
10 per cent reduction on their bills
for service, retroactive to october 10,
1882, with interest at per cent per
annum up to February Is, 1885. The
interest will be calculated to February
even where the refund is made i'm
mediately.
There will be some subscribers, it is
expected, who will not receive their
money until after February, on ac-
count Of having left the city or for
other reasons, but the bulk of the
sl,000,000 in retroactive payments is
expected to be in the hands of the
subscribers by Christmas.
Evening star., 1934-11-28

and East Washington Heights will meet
at East Washington Heights Baptist
Church for union services at 10 am,
with Rev. w. L. Darby, executive sec
retary of the Washington Federation
Of Churches, preaching on Giving
Thanks in Troublous Times"
There will be q home coming rally"
service at the Episcopal Church Of st.
Stephen and the Incarnation, with
celebration Of the holy eucharist at
1890 am.
Rev. David c. Clark, rector, will con-
duct special services at 1890 am. at
Trinity Episcopal Church.
The congregations Of Washington's
five synagogues will gather at Adas
Israel Synagogue, Sixth and streets,
at IL am. for joint services. Rabbi
Solomon Metz will preach.
Evening star., 1934-11-28
MEN ARE ACCUSED
Of LATE SHOPPING
Are Worse Offenders Than
Women at Christmas,
Ad Club Is Told.

Men are worse offenders than wJmen
In putting of their Christmas shopping
until the last moment, Sylvan King,
chairman Of the Shop Early-Mall
Early Committee of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association, told the
Washington Advertising Club at a
luncheon yesterday in the National
Press Club
The shop early movement originated
with women, King said, and they CO.
operate fairly well.
But unfortunately, he added this
splendid movement has not penetrated
the consciousness of many men. They
still seem to put off their purchases
until the last possible moment. We,
therefore, especially wish to call the
attention of the men at this luncheon
and those tuned in on this radio broad
cast, to the fact that there are only
% shopping days before Christmas. +"
Postmaster w. M. Mooney described
the annual Christmas rush in handling
letters, cards and packages and advised
that all local cards and letters be
Indll6u
before Christmas to be assured timely
delivery.
One of the major causes for mail
delay. he said, is the failure to wrap
properly Christmas packages. This
often results in breakage or neces-
states rewrapping, he told the Ad
Club members.
He asked that tiny envelopes and
cards not be used since they have to
be postmarked by hand.
Whether postal clerks will have the
opportunity of eating their Christmas
dinners at home with their families
depends on the cooperation OF citizens
In mailing early, Postmaster Mooney
declared.
President Norman c. Kal OF the
Ad Club made a brief Thanksgiving
address and introduced the speakers.
Evening star., 1934-11-28
UTILITY HEADS PRAISE
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING
Georgia Public Service Commits
sion Told of Value to Sell
ing Merchandise.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, November 28.-The tes-
timony of two utilities executives that
highly satisfactory" results were OBJ
tained through using newspaper ad-
vertising to sell merchandise was be-
fore the Georgia Public Service Com
mission yesterday.
The commission heard the two ex-
ecutives yesterday at hearing on gas
rates. The two were w. w. Winter,
general manager of the Atlanta Gas
Light Co., and E. j. Stern, division
manager of the properties Of the
Central Public Utilities Corp. outside
of Atlanta.
Competing with other services, 1t
is necessary for us to get our story be-
fore the public and we use great deal
of newspaper advertising and with
highly satisfactory results" said Win
ter. Newspaper advertising has done
us lots of good in increasing the sale
of appliances and the consumption of
gas and making for a continuing in
crease in the use Of gas"
Stern said newspaper advertising
is our main medium Of advertising and
we have used it to build up our sales.
The results have been splendid"