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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
Seamen Cheer Hathaway
as He Urges Militant
Fight for Demands

NEW YORK-More than 1000
sesmen cheered Clarence Hathaway,
editor of the Daily Worker, at South
and Whitehall Streets Thursday
night when he told them to flight
as one man and strike on Monday"
The meeting was called uAder the
auspices of the Downtown Section
Of the Communist Party and was
one of the most rousing rallies held
on the New York waterfront since
the announcement of the maritime
strike CALL
IF you permit yourselves to rely
on arbitration boards you will cool
your heels in Washington and then
you will have to go back and organ
ize all over again for your demands"
Hathaway told the seamen.
Tremendous applause gre e t e d
Hathaway when he urged the
marine workers not TO strike pass
lively but to become organizers of
the strike. close the shipping halls
on Saturday and march from dock
to dock on Monday and bring the
men on the ships and docks out on
strike"
Other speakers at the meeting
were Joseph Brandt, Downtown or
ganizer of the Communist Party;
H. Robinson, waterfront Commun-
ist organizer, and Harry Raymond,
Daily Worker staff correspondent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
WOrkerS'EnemieS
Exposed

Harold Williamson, of Jersey City.
N. j., also known at Jamaica, L. l..
has been exposed by the Negro
membership Of the LID. in Jersey
City as an unreliable and untrust-
worthy individual, who has misap-
prOpriated Labor Defender funds.
has tried to disrupt the LID
branch, has acted suspiciously in
trying to get various information,
and who has boosted of his &C
quaintance with police officials.
He is q mulatto Negro, printer by
trade, but understood also to have
been an advertising agent and I'M
dertaker and justice of peace. He
is about IS years of age, stands
about feet in height, weighs about
40 pounds. and is we'll known
among the Negro workers in Jersey
City and Jamaica.
He was organizer of the Jersey
City Branch of the LID. up to
November, 1888 and through his
arrogant manner drove a number
of workers away from the organiza-
ton. Not only did he take Labor
Defender subscriptions without Civ
ing any receipts for them, but he
also absconded with the proceeds of
an lid. dance without leaving any
records or accounts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
HOpkinsOpens
Drive to Cut
Farm Relief
Plan Is to Substitute
Subsistence Loans
for Direct Relief
BY Seymour Waldman
fDaiIv work.r w..h,nr,o, pn-.,,

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. s.
In announcing that more than 30
600 of the approximate 100000
destitute farm families have been
taken off the So to $40 month di-
rect relief rolls during the last six
months by the rural rehabilitation
program" and helped toward
the economic independence" of no
relief and subsistence loans, Harry
L, Hopkins, Federal Relief Admin
istrator and key member of the
new MIRA. policy committee, to-
clay virtually announced the be-
ginning of an intensive Roosevelt
administration drive to substitute
meagre subsistence loans for the
already inadequate direct relief
payments.
ct is an effort to get farm fani-
lies off relief rolls permanently"
Hopkins declared. THE funds are
loaned, but granted to fami-
lies of good character" he added.
When asked to reconcile this
subsistence program with the
Roosevelt crop destruction pro-
gram, Hopkins evasively replied,
"Oh, that's not going on forever"
Asked how the remaining $4,000
farm families will get along on the
So and $40 federal relief when the
city families of over four people are
suffering under the $23 a month
relief payment Hopkins figure),
Richberg answered:
"Oh, they don't need it. E. They
have house, little land, and so
forth.
The Hopkins announcement fore
shadows the beginning of business
government flank drives to head off
the increasing sentiment and or
ganization for both federal indus
trial and farm relief and unemploy-
ment insurance. The fact that the
Roosevelt administration spent
$7,500,000 a month for six months
for these 10000 families indicates
how seriously it views the spread
ing drive for genuine farm and in
dustrial relief, especially as pre-
sented in the Workers Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance Bill,
and in the Farmers Emergency Re-
lief Bill drafted by the Communist
Party and the United Farmers
League. 1t is also significant that
such rehabilitation" measures, if
carried through, will tend to Gre
ate a special small farmer class as
a dividing wall between the poorer
farmers and the huge army of mi
gratory farm workers. 1t is also
an attempt to furnish cheap Sub
sistence" labor to local industrialists.
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The bosses and their press call all
who fight for the workers reds"
If it takes reds to fight and improve
your conditions, don't be afraid to
be reds. The Communist Party will
gladly accept you into its official
family of Bolsheviks if you fight
fearlessly to win your demands"
he concluded.
In short but dynamic speech
Stachel analysed the history of the
strikebreaking activities of the A. F.
Of L. offlcialdom and showed the in
f1uence Ct Nle TU.UL. and its
teachings not only in revolutionary
and independent unions but also in
unions controlled by the A. F. of L..
citing the splendid mass picketing
in the textile and Frisco strikes.
He offered all the resources of the
T.U.UL. to help lead the strike to
success.
Hudson briefly described the con-
ditions of the workers in the in
dustry and presented a detailed
report on the strike preparations.
His announcement that the marine
workers will close all scab herding
halls today was met with a burst
of cheers.
Russell reported on the West
Coast strike. The collection made
by Royce brought in $4,000 in cash
and s74 in pledges by workers or
gani2atio
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far by our Party units and practi-
cally nothing has been done by our
mass organizations.
Boston Plans Affair
Boston, however, has scheduled a
major affair for Saturday night,
Oct. 81, at the Dudley Street Opera
House, 1l3 Dudley st., to send itself
to the fore. An excellent program
has been arranged, a performance
by the New Theatre players, violin
solo, the Workers Dance group and
a Russian chorus being included.
The principal speaker will be James
Casey, managing editor of the
Daily Worker.
1t is noteworthy that Easton, Pa,
a section that was in the center of
the textile strike, raised half its
quota during the struggle. In other
sections the excuse is advanced
that such a strike prevents adequate
work. What have our other districts
to say to Easton2
The New Daily Worker will be
out tomorrow night. The papers
funds are low! Bills have to be met!
The new paper has increased the
Daily Workers expenses by $1,000
a week! Money is needed immedi-
ately! The districts must push
themselves to the utmost to give the
new Daily Worker the immediate
support it needs.
The district table follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06

on quota of $4,000. Philadelphia S
percentage is 645. New York's is
1872.
The Denver district is second
with 57.8 per cent of its sum filled.
District Gains Small
The gain in the districts this past
week was small-the rise being from
Is to 21.8 per cent.
What this shows is that the work
is not progressing as it should. With
almost two months of the drive
passed, only one-f1fth of the $50, 1000
has come in.
Many districts are taking their
sections sharply to task. for this
situation. The Cleveland bulletin,
just received, singles out the Erie,
Dayton, Cambridge and Mansfield
sections, for special scoring. These
sections have not contributed cent.
The Cleveland District" the bull
letin AYERS, could easily be the
first to achieve its quota If 1t were
not for such sections"
Youngstown Criticized
Youngstown, the bulletin further
points out, the national concentra-
ton point for steel, seems to be
satisfied" with twelfth place in the
section standings.
The Boston district, too, has
analysed its position and states
that: TT is clear . that only
small effort has been exerted thus
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Continued from Page y
Negro question on the chin and
it took the count.
The resolution of the rank and
file opposition on the Negro ques-
ton which took up the same ques-
ton of discrimination resolved that
the convention, go on record call
ing for the elimination of clauses
of constitutions of any affiliated
unions of the A. F. of L. contain
ing any suggestion of discrimina-
ton against Negro workers, and
that all Jim-Crow locals be imme-
diately merged with the existing
locals to establish the closest unity
of Negro and white workers, and be
it further resolved, to rally the
membership of organized labor
against the provisions of the MIRA.
codes which discriminate against
Negro workers, and for a struggle
to establish equal pay for equal
work and equal opportunity for any
jobs for Negro workers, as well as
to establish full equality for white
workers in all other working con-
ditions in the shop, and equal
rights in the union, including the
right to hold any office.
Perkins Speaks
Preceded by a laudatory intro
duction delivered by President
Green, Frances Perkins, the great
est Secretary of Labor since Will
lam Nuckles Doak of the Hoover
Cabinet, let herself go today in her
speech to the A. F. of L. conven-
ton. Miss Perkins referred in her
carefully cultivated liberal way to
the present great test of strength
by labor and capital with its great
strike wave as transitional
period" The Secretary of Labor
accompanied by her Assistant Ed.
McGrady, the man who helped
break the coal and shoe workers
strikes, assured the convention that
the present strike wave was not of
an unusual character, but that
most of them were Susceptible of
settlement by means of mediation
and SO forth"
In the face of all the facts reluc-
family established in the Executive
Council report and the official
speeches of the A. F. of L. dynasty,
Miss Perkins assured the conven-
ton that total employment and
payrolls had increased under the
beneficent rule of our great Presi-
dent in the year el2psing since the
Washington convention of the A.
F. of L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
Enthusiastic Rallies
Support Sea Strike
Browder, Stachel and
Marine Leaders at
Mass Meeting

NEW YORK - The entire re-
sources of the Communist Party in
support of the marine workers
strike were pledged last night by
Earl Browder, general secretary of
the Communist Party, at a mass
meeting at Irving Plaza called by
the Committee for the Support OF
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union.
Among other labor leaders who
spoke at the meeting were Jack
Stachel, acting secretary of the
Trade Union Unity League; Roy
Hudson, national secretary of the
M.WI.U. and chairman of the Joint
Strike Preparations Committee;
Willard Bliss, national secretary of
the American Radio Telegraphists
CIndependent) Association; Edward
Russell, marine engineer and
member of the West Coast Rank
and File Strike Committee, and
Edward Royce of the Workers In
ternational Relief. Hays Jones, edi-
tor of the Marine Workers Voice,
was chairman.
One of the most applauded
speakers, Bliss, started with, More
arresting than an SOS. call the
word Strike is being flashed across
the seas by radio operators" Re-
viewing the history of his union he
related how the M.W.I.U. was the
Only union that responded to their
call for united action in their strike
last year against the International
Mercantile Marine.
He concluded by calling on all
seamen and longshoremen for
united action to tie up every ship
on the Atlantic and Gulf coastlines
on Monday until all the demands
are granted by the shipowners.
The appearance of Browder on
the platform brought the audience
to their feet singing the Interna-
tfonal In a Enthusiastically simple
and clear cut fashion he exposed
the causes of red scares' spread
by the united front of the bosses,
the government and the top off,
Gals of the A. F. of L., as a means
employed by them to divide the
ranks of the workers in order to
either prevent or break strikes.
Analysing Roosevelt's truce" and
its acceptance by the leaders of the
LILA, I.S.U. and A. F. of L. gen
orally, he stated, "the marine work
ers should also accept the truce
but only after all their present de-
mands are granted" Characterizing
truce as breathing space to pre-
pare for bigger and better fight
against the bosses, he said that a
Truce now, accepting things as they
are today, is all the bosses and their
hirelings want, but is not in the
interests of the working class.
"A bold and fearless leadership
will lead the strike to a success.
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ton to the millions of dollars
checked off for taxes, deprecia-
ton, etc. The Republic company
alone in the first six months Of
1884, according to its own figures,
made a net profit of S805,443.
Cuts Planned in Other Industries
It is not only in the steel industry
that the wage cut drive is being
prepared. At the convention of the
cotton garment employers in Allan
tic City, now going on, many speak
ers demanded that the NR.A. code
minimum wages be dropped and
that there shall be minimum wages
only on piece work. These de-
mand can have but one meaning
an intention to cut wages of sew
eral hundred thousand garment
workers at the same time that
speed-up is on increase. Wages Of
auto, rubber, and ether workers are
to be cut also, it is planned.
1t is not accidental that Presi-
dent Roosevelt has placed in charge
of the newly organized administra-
tive division of the MIRA. S. Clay
Williams, chairman of the board of
the Reynolds Tobacco Company. 1t
was the Reynolds company that re-
fused to be bound by any sort Of
tobacco code. Under Williams, this
company stated that forty cents an
hour was too high minimum wage
for skilled tobacco workers.
This is the real meaning of the
mo strike" truce speech Of Roose-
welt and of the present re-organi-
cation now going on in the MIRA.
The employers are given clear
track and open government sane
ton to speedup the attack on the
workers - to smash unions, cut
wages, bring forward the company
union and increase government
control of existing unions, and to
generally worsen conditions. This
is the truce" to be backed by
murderous terror against strikers,
to which the Greens and Germans
at the head of the A. F. of L. have
given their stamp of approval.
The wage-cutting union smashing
drive Of the employers and their
reorganized MIRA. can be defeated
The united front of all workers
against this employers attack, to
develop real struggle for all the
workers demands, can defeat the
Roosevelt-employer drive and bring
better conditions to the workers.
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away with the minimum wages in
the codes and establishing a new
basis for determining wages. Roose-
welt, carrying out the dictates of big
business, gave the signal in his
speech for the wage cutting drive
This wage cutting drive is stimuli
taneous with intensification of the
union-smashing campaign outlined
in the speech of Richbsrg, which
advocates individual bargaining
rights" under the MIRA.
Girdler, in his speech before the
American Society for Metals at the
Hotel Pennsylvania, claimed that
the steel industry took measures
under its code, to increase employ
ment and hourly wage rates. He
continued, "The steel industry, like
many other industries, has over
stepped the bounds of practicability
in this direction :. Now 1 wish we
could continue to pay these wages,
or even better wages indefinitely
money taken in must provide not
only for wages, but for dividends
for stockholders"
Girdler directly quotes Roose-
velt's radio speech as justification
for the wage cutting drive in the
steel industry. He refers to Roose-
velt's laudation of "the driving
power of individual initiative and
the incentive of fair private profit"
as the basis for the steel companies
intention to increase dividends at
the expenses of the workers.
20 Million Profits in Months
Girdler spoke not only for the
Republic, but for all the steel en-
ployers. The exposure of their dem
agogic cry that they have no in
come is complete when the cold
hard figures of their profits are
considered.
The eleven big steel companies,
including Republic, U. S. Steel, J.
and L., Bethlehem and others,
made combined net profit of
twenty million dollars in the three
months period of April, May and
June this. year, the latest figures
available. This net profit for the
second quarter of 1884 is in addi-
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Continued from Page II
which will appear on the streets to-
morrow night will stimulate i'm
measurably the work and leadership
OF the Communist Party in this dis
trict, and should show its influence
Immediately in the form of results
for the Parry recruiting campaign.
But these things will be true only
If the members of the Party and
sympathetic workers in mass or
CARNATIONS will make proper and
adequate use of this newly forged
weapon, he said.
The financial drive for the sup
port of the enlarged paper, must be
speeded up at once" Krumbein
warned. This is the only assurance
that the city editions will be able
to go on. All individuals and Or
CARNATIONS should bring whatever
money they have collected for the
Daily Worker financial drive to the
delegated mass meeting at the Gen.
trail Opera House, 67th Street and
Third Avenue tomorrow night at
8 p. m.
Section and unit organiza tions of
the Party must respond to the first
city editions by rushing their bundle
orders at once to the District Daily
Worker office, Krumbein declared.
There must be a minimum of
10000 papers ordered by these agen-
cies by tonight, he said. With
properly direc ed effort we can
double the New York circulation of
the paper in one month and re-
double it in a period of six months,
he asserted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
A CORRECTION

On Sept. 81, there appeared
news item on the strike of the
painters in the Sol Cohen shop, in
the Bronx. The painters in this
shop were striking under the lead
ersnip of the Alteration Painters
Union, and were demanding nine
dollars day, with a seven-hour
day and other conditions.
The news story in the Daily
Worker enormously stated that the
wage demands were for five dollars
per day. This error has just been
called to the attention of the Daily
Worker. The correct demand was
for nine dollars per day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
Philadelphia seamen Ready
Especial to the Daily worker)

Especial to the Daily WOrker)
PHILADELPHIA, Penn, Oct. S.
Crews of ships in port and sea-
men on the beach here are en-
dorSing the strike, more than SOC
having signed strike pledge cards
issued by the Joint Strike Prepare
tlcnS Committee. The officers and
crew of the Amelia received the
committees delegate on board and
enthusiastically endorsed the strike
at an open meeting on deck.
An I. S. U. delegate trying to
win endorsement of the Olander
sellout was booed off the ship. Dele
cations of the j. S, P. c., Marine
Workers Industrial Union, and I'M
employed seamen were each told
by I. S. U. officials here they would
take no action in the strike, but
would wait for the elimination of
arbitration proceedings on the West
Coast.
Taxi drivers will refuse to haul
any scabs to striking piers or ships,
a seamen's strike meeting was told
by driver, Harbor and toWboat
men are daily coming in to the
committees headquarters, 312 South
Second ST., saying there will be no
scabbing in these branches of the
industry after Monday.
Tomorrow morning the seamen
will begin drive to close all fink
halls, and take first steps in es-
teblishing a Centralized Shipping
Bureau.
Longshoremen on the Ericsson
Pier, who walked out last week af-
ter Polly Bakers gang tried to force
them into the International Long
shoremen's Association, continue
picketing of the pier, and this
morning succeeded in driving away
a scab trying to sneak in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
All Shipping Halls
To Be Closed Today
Continued from Page y
bureau where the rotary system of
hiring will be MT intn effect


bureau where the rotary system of
hiring will be put into effect.
Strong Solidarity
It was the first time such solidar-
ity was expressed between men OF
the sea. A grizzled, weather beaten
captain rubbed shoulders with a
.uess-bov. The captain was telling
an abled seaman that he was going
out with the unlicensed men to
help close the fink halls" An engi-
.neer and a fireman were working
together sorting out leaflets that
they were going to distribute on the
waterfront and on the ships.
There was quite a different pic
ture over at the headquarters of
the International Seamen's Union.
1t was as quiet as a graveyard
there. The officials of this union
are again calling a strike, so there
were no seamen to be found around
the headquarters. Only two Off
Gals, who looked upon newspaper
men very suspiciously and refused
to give out any statements, held
forth at the I. s. U. Hall
To Close All Halls
"See Mr.. Olander at the Ply
mouth Hotel" was all the informa-
ton reporters could get from the
two I. S. U. leaders.
1t was announced at the Joint
Strike headquarters that while the
unlicensed men are closing the ship
ping halls today the officers, who
do not hire through the halls, will
open a boycott campaign on the
shipping company offices.
The Centralized Shipping Bureau
Committee will lead the work of
closing the halls. Committees will
go to the halls backed by masses
Of workers and tell the shippers
that they must do all shipping
through the Centralized Bureau
Committee. Where the Interna-
tional SeamenS Union has job con-
troll, such as on the Eastern Steam
ship Company, the seamen will not
attempt to close the halls, but will
try to convince the men of the nee
essity of the Central Bureau and
ask for their support in the strug-
gle for the bureau.
Unity Agreement
Roy Hudson, chairman Of the
Joint Strike Preparations Commit
tee, explained that all organiza-
tions which have united for strike
action in the Joint Committee have
agreed not to criticise each other
during the course of the struggle
as long as each organization car
ries out the decisions Of the COM
mittee. The committee also agreed
that no organization shall settle
with the shipowners until the de-
mands for all groups are won.
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SCANDINAVIANs TO MEET

NEW YORK.-All scandinavian
members of the Communist Party in
Brooklyn are requested to attend
meeting called for this evening at
$50 by the District Language De-
partment. The meeting will be held
in the International Workers Order
Hall at 246 Forty-Third Street,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
But Registry Board
Threatens Workers
WhOV Vote Communists
County Officials Declare They Will Find Out
Names of All Who Dare to Cast Vote for
Norman Ragland, Negro Communist

Birmingham, Ala. Oct. 5.-The County Board of Reg
isrars has been forced by the militant struggle of the Com
munst Party here to place Norman Ragland Negro worker
the ballot candidate for Congress in the Ninth District
In doing however the Board made an omnous threat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
Philadelphia District Leads
In Daily Yorker Fund Drive;
NeW York Trails in Canlpaign

With quota ten times less than that of New York,
Philadelphia has contributed half much New York has
in the Daily Worker drive for $4,000.
Philadelphia, leading all the districts has contributed
225592 of quota of So 800 New York has in