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The daily worker., 1934-04-12
Mexican Govt Aids
CalifOrniaGrOwerS'
Attack on PickerS
Union Leader Arrested
AS He Leaves Meeting
Called by Glassford

SAN DIEGO, Calf. April II. =
Stanley Hancock, militant leader Of
the lettuce pickers' strike in I'M
perial Valley, was officially deported
from Mexico last Friday.
Hancock was arrested in Mexicali
upon orders from Joaquin Terrazas,
Mexican Consul at Celexico, Calf.
Terrazas has unsuccessfully tried to
force the Mexican workers into the
growers company union in order to
prevent them joining the Cannery
and Agricultural Workers Industrial
Union, which is leading the strike
movement in the valley
After his deportation from Mexico
Hancock Immediately went to El
Centre to place the demands Of the
pickers on General Glassford, n. r.
A. arbitrator, who is now IN the
Valley attempting to prevent a
strike in the cantaloupe fields
Frank Nieto, one OF the leaders Of
the agricultural workers, was ar
restel and thrown into Jail in San
Diego as he left meeting with
Gen. Glassford to whom he had pre-
sented the demands of the workers
No charges were placed against him,
but he was held until Glassford
finding his soft-soaping tactics en-
barrassed by the arrest of the union
representative induced Deputy
Sheriff Rodney Clark TO release
Nieto.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12

tee would consider the measure and
report later.
The members Of this committee
on rules, who were forced to listen
to these militant speeches, repre-
sent directly the ruling clique of
finance capital in New England
The speaker of the house, Salton-
stall, is a member of the corpora
ton law firm of Castor, Snow, Salt
onstall g. Hunt, one of the two
dominant corporation law firms
here Senator Bacon, president of
the Senate and also on this COM
mittee, it was revealed last year is
on the Morgan preferred list
The composition of this commit
tee shows how tightly finance cap
ital keeps its grip on the law-making
bodies here. Every bill brought be-
fore the legislature must pass
through this committee and these
representatives OF Wall Street and
Boston's State Street are placed
there for the sole purpose of pro-
tecting these interests. This is a
local instance Of the futility Of the
Socialist Party program based on
legal measures within the structure
of the capitalist state. Donald Burke
brought out the need for mass ac-
ton on the part of the workers as
the necessary motive power for any
bill Of this nature. Only mill
tant and aroused working class can
force through this bill
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
Plan to Fire 5000
PhiIa. C.W.A. Men
Start Forced Labor
for Relief

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April IL
Six thousand additional G. w. A.
workers will be fired this week,
George w. Connell formerly c. w.
A. director and now In charge Of
L.WD. in Philadelphia, said yes
terday.
Among these Philadelphia work
ers to be fired are teachers, engi-
neers and other skilled workers who
have been working on such projects
as the census of the unemployed,
traffic count and investigation of
special relief cases.
According to orders received
from Washington, only those on the
relief lists will be eligible for L.W.D
jobs" said Connell. IT am doing
everything possible to create more
jobs"
Actually he is transferring work
ers from the relief rolls to the
forced labor of the work relief
projects" The 10000 workers on
the relief rolls of Philadelphia were
recently registered by the County
Relief Board, and all "eligibles" are
to be transferred to forced labor
Jobs.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
1000 Picket Real
Silk in indianapolis
Strike Against Company
Slave Union and
for Pay Rise

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April IL
Over 1000 OF the 1900 strikers at
the Real Silk, National and Fulton
hosiery mills we're on the picket
lines Monday. Supporting them
were members of the Unemployed
Council. The strike is against the
company union, for higher wages,
and recognition of the Full Fash
ioned Hosiery Workers Union.
The Tom Mooney branch of the
International Labor Defense dis
tributed leaflets to the strikers,
pledging full cooperation and de-
fense of all strikers.
1t was estimated that production
without the aid of the knitters who
are on strike could last only until
Wednesday.
One half of the executive board
of the union is composed OF rank
and file knitters.
The management Of the plant is
firm on it's non-recognition policy,
and no negotiations have yet been
held. There are signs that the
bosses will offer wage concessions,
up to the union scale, but will in
sist on retaining the company union.
The company had number Of
threadler machines going on each
floor to give the impression Of bus
mess as usual" but the strikers were
not fooled by the familiar swish
swish of these machines.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
City,NegrO Church,
A.F. Of L., JObIeSS
Endorse H. R. 1898
Demand Congress En-
act Unemployment
Bill I'll. r. 1898

NEW YORK.-A Negro church in
Cincinnati. the City Council Of Lin
den, N. J.. the Springfield Unem-
ployed League, and the Bronx, N. Y,
Amalgamated Bakers Local 154. have
added their endorsement to the
growing list of unions, workers or
ganiSations and cities that have en-
doFeed the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill (H. R. 7596).
At c. W. A. meetings, the Unsm-
ployed Council Of Linden brought
the bill 10 the workers. A delegation
was elected to bring the Workers
Bill up at the City Council meeting.
At the meeting, the workers packed
the council chambers, and forced the
city body TO act on the Workers Bill
Negro Church Endorses Bill
The Mill Greek Baptist Church. q
Negro church in Cincinnati. en-
dorsed the Workers Bill (H. r. 1899
The minister of the church at
tempted to block the endorsement
Of the Bill, but the workers at the
church were unanimous in their en-
dorsement.
Bakers Demand H. r. 1898
The Workers Bill was unani-
mously endorsed by the Amalga-
mated Bakers local 1874 of Bronx
N. Y, at the regular membership
meeting attended by 400 workers or
April 7.
The Bill was presented by L. Fine
Of the Bronx County Unemployment
Council. The resolution with a peti.
tion attached will be sent to Con.
gress with the demand that tn,
Workers Bill viii be adopted.
Springfield Unemployed Act
The Springfield, Mass, Unem,
ployed League, at its regular meet,
ing on April 6, endorsed the Work.
ers Unemployment and Social In.
surance Bill.
When the Workers Bill was pro.
posed, Flemming, a Socialist, treas.
urer of the league, proposed that
the league send delegates to Bostor
to support the Sawyer-Lewis Bill al
a legislative hearing. The worker,
voted down this proposal, ADOPTING
the Workers Bill
The daily worker., 1934-04-12

sualization plan for longshoremen,
which would drive two-thirds of the
longshoremen out of the industry.
Davidson, of the Needle Trades
Union, Gilbert for the Furniture
Workers Union, and Prayer for the
Dyehouse Workers Union, stressed
the need Of part-time workers in
these seasonal industries for this
social insurance.
Albert Mallinger, of the Amer
ican League Against War and Fas-
cism, brought out the fact that the
original bill provided that all war
funds should be used for unem-
ployment insurance. He stressed
the preparations for war and said
that over 1,00OOOO,O0O had been
appropriated for war purposes by
the Roosevelt government in the
last year.
Main May Day Issue
Manuel Blanc, speaking for the
Communist Party, told of the rising
tide of strikes, demonstrations, and
mass meetings before relief bureaus,
on c. w. A. jobs and local forced
labor projects, demonstrations whose
main purpose was the demand for
adequate relief. He stressed the
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
Workers Urged to Vote
for Own Union in
Plebiscite

NEW YORK. - To smash
down the attempts of the big
gas and electric companies to
foist company unions on their
employees, eighty-five per cent
Of the workers of the fifteen Con-
solidsted System Companies have
petitioned for q plebiscite to vote on
union Of their own choice.
The halloting in the following
eight companies will be held today:
Astoria Light, Heat and Power Com
pany New Amsterdam Gas Com
peny, East River Gas Company Of
Long Island City. Central Union Gas
Company, Northern Union Gas
Company, New York & Queens Gas
Company, New York and Queens
Electric Light and Power Company
and the Westchester Lighting Com
pauv.
Next Tuesday workers from the
following companies will vote
Brooklyn Edison Company. Consoli-
dated Gas Company of New York.
Yonkers Electric Light and Power
Company. New York Steam Corpo-
ration, National Coal and Coke
Company and the Standard Gas
Light Company of the City of New
York.
Consolidated System Is Pushing
Company Unions
The Consolidated System has been
pushing the company union cam
paign. Through intimidation this
system has forced the workers in
several Of the large plants to vote
for company union. A company
union formed several months ago in
the New York Edison Co. has
aroused the workers and they are
now demanding union controlled
by the employees.
Workers in the Brooklyn Edison
Company Hudson Ave. steam gener-
sting plant. the biggest of its kind
in the world. are almost solidly or
ganized into their own independent
union.
The Trade Union Unity Council
has issued statement from its
Offices at 799 Broadway on the cleo
ton. The statement says, in part:
Workers in all the plants should
beware of the tricks of the bosses tc
tie them hand and foot through
their company union scheme to the
cutting. strikebreaking plan;
Of the Consolidated System.
Vote against the company union
Vote for your own independent
unions Then build them up on the
basis of democratically elected de.
partment committees as weapor
against the wage -slashing program
of the bosses"
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
Demand Removal
OF FlOphOuse Head
Workers at Mass Meet
Refused Decent Food

NEW YORK. hundred un-
employed single workers, living at
the Salvation Arny's Gold Dust
Lodge. at a mass meeting held be-
fore the lodge at Corlears and
Water Sts., voted to demand the
immediate removal Of Major Laurie
from the head of the lodge, and
will place their demands before
Deputy Commissioner of Welfare
Howe at 230 today.
At the open-air meeting held
yesterday, delegates we're elected
from the jobless workers to demand
decent food, clothing and better
housing for the single workers liv-
ing there.
When the delegates met with
Major Laurie he refused to grant
their demands. He followed the
delegates to the meeting, and was
asked to tell the workers what was
his reply. Mounting the platform,
he asked how many of those at the
meeting lived at the lodge. Imme-
diately about 400 hands holding
blue cards shot up in the air.
Forestalled in his attempt to dis
credit the delegates, he then
launched into an attack upon the
"reds." you people who held up
your hands," Laurie said, can eat
with your speakers. Three years
ago I kicked out 500 reds and will
do it again. Whenever they hold
meetings I will send men among
them to break up their meetings,
and not allow them to be held"
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
Baltimore C. P. to.
Hold Nominating
Convention, Apr. z
Workers Organizations
Urged to Send
Delegates

BALTIMORE. Nd. April 1.-THE
State Nominating Convention Of the
Communist Party in Maryland will
be held on Sunday, April az, at ii
a. M, at 200 S. Bond st., 2nd floor
At this convention candidates for
all state offices from governor down
will be nominated. Candidates will
also be nominated for three of the
six Congressional districts OF the
state. and four of the six legislative
districts of Baltimore.
To get on the ballot two thousand
signatures will be required for each
OF the five statewide candidates
dncluding U. S. Senator, 1900 for
each of the Congressional nominees
and 500 fer each of the city candi-
dates.
In conjunction with the conven-
ton and the following campaign,
concentrated work will be made in
the steel mills. railroad shops, along
the waterfront and among the Ne
gro masses. In it's call to the con-
vention the Communist Party ap-
peals to the workers to rally around
the campaign. to support the Party,
TO organize shop committees Of the
Trade Union Unity League. and not
only aid the Party in the campaign.
but to fight wage cuts and speed
up.
Although the convention will not
be as fully representative as it
should had more aggressive and
we'll organized campaign been con-
Quoted. nevertheless delegates are
expected from A. r. Of L. locals,
from among the farmers, from
Western Maryland, from large
number of Negro and fraternal or
ganizations, and from the red unions
and left groups in factories.
The keynote speech will be made
by E. Williams, section organizer of
the Communist Party. who will lay
down the basis for the campaign
Acceptance speeches will be made by
the candidates nominated for state
wide offices.
Any organization, not having re-
ceived call to the convention. de-
string to send two delegates, should
communicate with o. Roberts, cam
paign manager, at 207 S. Bond st.
Baltimore, Nd Organizations ano
individuals desiring to contribute
financially should write to same ad-
dress.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
Arkansas Police Set Up
Machine Guns to Break
Unity of Negro, White

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark,
April 11-Machine guns tear gas
bombs and clubs were used by po-
lice here to break up demonstra-
ton of 400 white and Negro work
ers before. the City Hall, following
the arrest of three workers leaders
charged with being Communists. :"
The three arrested are j. w. Cur
ran, CD. Liffen and CIV. Christie.
Liffen and Christie we're arrested
while speaking at a meeting of 800
workers. -Four hundred of them
followed the police to City Hall, de-
manding the release of their lead
ers. Frightened by this show of
militancy, the police brought out
their full arsenal, trained machine
guns on the workers and arrested
Curran.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
JObIeSS
Resist EyictiOnS,
Stop Sheriff Sales
March on Relief BurO,
Win Relief, Organize
for Struggle

PITTSBURGH, Pa, April IL
Under the leadership Of the Unem-
ployment Councils, Negro and white
workers are mobilizing here and
successfully resisting the wholesale
evictions that have been instituted
since the County Relief Board has
stopped paying the rents Of unem-
ployed workers.
On last Thursday, the militant
Negro and white workers of the Hill
District stopped five evictions. At
one eviction fully 400 workers gath
cred on Wvhe Ave, and although -
police we're modified to terTorize
the workers, the family was moved
into the house again. In Hazelwood,
hundreds of workers gathered at
homes which faced sheriff's sales,
and the sheriff dared not show up.
From Thursday onward, dozens Of
evictions have been stopped
throughout the Hill District. On
Monday morning, three more evic-
tions we're stopped by the workers.
In Williamsburg, II workers gathered
and stopped a constable sale. The
Williamsburg local council alone has
stopped eight sales in the recent pc
riod.
In Clarion, after the mayor had
refused to grant a permit for 8
demonstration, the Unemployment
Councils mobilized over 400 unem-
ployed workers, marched in steady
stream to the Welfare Office with
out q parade permit, and forced the
offlcials to give immediate relief tc
the most pressing cases. Ever
though the mayor had deputiSed
dozens OF thugs to smash the pa
rade, II was held because Of the
clever strategy Of the local Leaders
Of the Clarion Unemployment
Council. A reign Of terror Is already
being initiated in an attempt tC
smash the militant Unemployment
Council organization in Clarion.
In Braddock- Rankin, one OF t1t
local leaders OF the Unemployment
Council took 40 members of tht
Arnalganated Association of Iron
Steel and Tin Workers to the relic
station, and forced the relief Off
cials to grant food orders and othe,
needs to all of the families.
The Unemployment Councils ar
mobinzing all forces to defeat thl
mass evictions already begun, ant
to intensity all struggles down tn
line for increased relief, against dis
elimination of Negro and foreign
born workers, and for the immediat
enactment Of the Workers Unem
ployment Insurance Bill.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
New York Bakers Win
After Six Month Strike

NEW YORK-The six months
strike at the Marseillaise French
Baking Co., 293 w. 4th Street
against low wages and long hours
ended in victory for the thirty
five workers in the shop, when the
boss signed a contract with the
Bakery Workers Industrial Union
under whose leadership the strike
was conducted.
The strikers have come out VIC
toriously with the following gains:
ID Recognition of the union.
(2) Recognition Of the Shop
Committee.
80 Wage increase from 10 10
80 percent.
(4) Reduction of daily hours By
one hour.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
1000 in Akron Hear
BrOWder Speak on
COmmuniStWayOut
Workers from Rubber
and Other Plants Show
Great Interest

AKRON. Ohio, April 1l.-Over
1000 Akron workers heard Earl
Browder, general secretary of the
Communist Party, speak on the
Communist way out of the crisis at
a mass meet here yesterday in the
Perkins School Hall.
Many of the workers from the
strike ranks, from the rubber and
other factories, as well as unem-
ployed and students, listened with
an intentness and interest such as
was never seen before.
Browder's explanation of the
meaning of the settlement" in the
threatening general auto strike was
Of especial interest to the rubber
workers, who at present face sim
liar action from their A. F. of L.
top leaders.
More than % workers got up and
asked questions and took part In
the discussion, and only the lack
Of time prevented dozens more from
participating.
The chairman of the meeting
brought out the fact that the Akron
police force tried to prevent work.
ers from distributing leaflets an
nouncing the meeting. A large
number of the circulars were de-
stroyed by the police, taken from
workers in front of the Goodrich
rubber plant.
Scores Of workers made applica-
ton for membership to the Com
munist Party during the course OF
the meeting. When the meeting
was closed, and as Comrsde Brow
der was rushing to make the train,
he was met by q number Of SYM
pathetic students from the Akron
schools. Workers stood around the
hall long after Browder left, dis
cussing the meeting
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
White Workers Help Negro
attacked BY Chicago Thugs
Anna HO,Ve SLugged Unconscious; Hesse,
Negro Worker, Badly Hurt; Workers Call
for Formation of Defense Groups

feet in height, was knocked uncon-
scious by the sluggers on the plat
form Of the car. Passengers sought
to defend the workers but the lights
were put out by the thugs. They
smashed the windows and ran off
The Negro worker, Leon Hesse, was
badly hurt.
The attack was another in a series
Of such occurrences in the neigh
borhood Of the Auditorium, work
ers' center. Indignant workers
pointed out that the increasing at
tacks must be stopped by organizing
workers of the neighborhood into
defense groups.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
Pickets Freed; Commit
tee Urges Mass Picketing e
of Welfare Department

NEW YORK.-The 13 fired G. W
A. workers who we're arrested on
April 4, for picketing Commissioner
of Welfare Hodson's offices, were
freed Tuesday when they faced
Magistrate August Dreyer,
The Committee of One Hundred
urges all unemployed and fired c.
w. A. workers to form mass picket
lines at the Welfare Department
building at so Lafayette St., and to
continue the picketing until the
granting of the workers demands
for immediate reinstatement of al
fired G. w A. workers, and imme-
diate cash relief equal at least to
C. w. A. wages be granted to the
unemployed.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)

CHICAGO, April l1.-Hoodlums
shouting lynch threats attacked and
severely beat a Negro worker and
two white girls who went to his de-
fense as they boarded a street car
near the Peoples Auditorium, 245
West Chicago Ave, Tuesday at mid
night. The three had just left a
dramatic council meeting held in
preparation for the National Theatre
Festival here April 10 to Is.
Anne Howe, National Organiza-
tionsl Secretary Of the League of
Workers Theatres and barely five
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
Hit Company Unions.
In Vote In Utility
Power Plants Today
85 Kenosha Bed Spring
Strikers Win Pay Rise

KENCSHA, Wis, April 1.-THE
strike of IS workers in the Vim
cent-McCsl Bed Spring plant, begun
Feb. 5, was settled last week with
10 per cent increase in pay for the
workers. Besides, the strikers won
recognition of the union shop COM
mittee. The men went back to work
under the banner of their federal
union. Local 1886. Though the
workers did not win all their de-
mands, the company failed to smash
the union or the solidarity of the
workers, The strike was run by the
workers themselves, rejecting all
opposition Of the top leadership of
the A. F. of L.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
Police Brutality Fails
TOBreak Aero Strike
OF 1000 In Buffalo
Norfolk Firemen Fight.
for Right to Organize

NORFOLK, Va.-Right Of muni-
cipal firemen to Join a labor or
ganiZation of their own choosing is
at stake in case now pending be-
fore Circuit Judge Allan Hanckel
in Norfolk. Recently he granted a
temporary injunction restraining
the public safety director Of Nor
folk from enforcing an order pro-
hibiting local firenen from cOntinu-
ing as members Of . new local Of
the International Association Of
Fire Fighters.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
MURDER WITNESS KILLED

NEW YORK.-Peter Turrigisni,
principal witness in the case of the
murder of Joseph Gonnola, who was
kidnapped last February, was found
strangled to death in Brooklyn to-
day. His chauffeur, Peter Calica,
was also found shot to death and
was beside Turrigiani's body in the
car.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12
2 FIREMEN DIE IN s5o,OOO BLAZE

PERTH AMBOY, N. j., April IL
A S50,000 fire roared today in the
F. and w. five and ten cent store,
taking the lives Of two firemen who
we're caught in the blazing structure,
following their entrance into 1t.
The daily worker., 1934-04-12

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The daily worker., 1934-04-12
FIRE SWEEPS N. Y. APARTMENT
HOUSE

NEW YORK. A tremendous blaze
swept through 35 of the 70 apart
ments at 3101 Lakeland Ave. today,
driving all tenants to the street.
The Washington times., 1934-11-30
DC. Girl and Student Near Death
After Crash of Auto and Bus

Miss Mary Seaford, 19-year-old
daughter of a washington realtor,
is in a critical condition in
Casualty Hospital today, and her
companion, Dan Egenbrode, 22'
senior at Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, is near death, the result OF an
accident on the washington Boule-
ward early today.
The couple was returning to
Washington from a dance in
Baltimore when the car, said to
have been driven by the man,
crashed head on into a Baltimore
bound bus at Berwyn, Md. Both
were thrown from the car by the
impact.
John Weber, of Baltimore,
driver and only occupant of the
bus, was uninjured.
Believed G. w. Student
Miss Seaford, daughter of Rob
ert P. Seaford, lived in the 1900
block of CORTLAND Pl. N. w.
The couple was brought to Cas-
ualty Hospital by the BladenSburg
rescue squad. Physicians said both
suffered internal injuries and frac-
lures.
The death toll of traffic mis-
haps scared to 118 for the year
over the Thanksgiving holiday,
with the death of three persons in
Washington hospitals. The new
deaths bring the total to within
five of the all-time record of 1913
deaths in 1880. There have been
Is deaths here during November.
The Washington times., 1934-11-30
BALM AWARD UPHELD

TRENTON, N. j., Nov. 80
G.N.SO.-Verdict for $4,000 in
favor of Mrs. Grace Trowbridge
Fox, North Plainfield, against
The Washington times., 1934-11-30

Dorothy Pitcher, also of North
Plainfield, for alienation of the
plaintiffs husband, John c. E.
Fox, was upheld by Circuit Court
Judge Ruff v. Lawrence today.
Evening star., 1934-06-21
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