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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Hard Coal Miners Urge Strike Mdoney Acts for SelIot
PushCampaign
For Workers.
Insurance Bill
United Front Congress
Initiates Drive in
ShamOkin, Pa.

SHAMOKIN, Pa. Oct. 16.-Sixty
delegates from fourteen organiza-
tions met at. the Northumberland
County Congress for Social Security
here last week to map out a cam
paign of support for the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill and
to prepare for the statewide un-
employed demonstrations on Oct.
10 and 20.
Delegates at the conference rep
resented the Communist Party. the
Unemployment Councils. Garibaldi
Society, United Mine Workers of
America, International Workers
Order, American Workers PARTY.
Workers Protective League of
Mount Carmel and Women's Auxil-
iaries.
The congress unanimously en-
dorsed the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill and a Northumber-
land County Committee for the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill was elected from the floor to
involve workers organizations in
the fight for its enactment and to
popularize the bill among unions
and groups not represented at the
conference.
All organizations present at the
congress endorsed the State Con-
gress for Social Security to be held
IN Harrisburg on Oct. 81 and %.
John Kuchinski, County Or
ganizer of the Unemployment Coun-
ellis and Communist candidate for
State Legislature, outlined the
statewide campaign and demon
stration to be held on Oct. 10 and
20 in the fight for increased relief
winter clothing, fuel, rent and
genuine unemployment insurance.
Alter he spoke, Mike Demchak of
the American Workers Party moved
that these demonstrations should
not receive the support of the con-
greSs but should be postponed to
Nov, "a. The delegates voted to
demonstrate on both dates.
Resolutions adopted at the con-
gress demanded the endorsement of
the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill of all candidates fo-
once IN the coming elections. The
Workers Bill, which was initiated
by the Communist Party, is in
corporated in the Communist cleo
ton platform.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Jobless Demonstrate
At Youngstown Relief
Office; Get Hearing
Especial TO the Daily Worker,

YOUNGSTOWN. O.. Oct ia
More than 300 workers Stormed the
youngstown relief office when
county Relief Director Noble re-
1useo to meet an elected commit
tee OF workers today. When Grav
Unemployed Council organizer. re-
pore to the demonstration of 400
on the Wick and Rayen School
grounds, pointing out that only
mass pressure would bring relief
the response was unanimous for a
march to back up the committee
despite mass mobilization of police
plain clothes men and Republic
police, who attempted to in imidate
the crowd.
Shouting militant slogans of ac-
ton the workers compelled relief
officials to recognize over seventy
five cases wri ten on Unemployed
Council complaint blanks. The I'M
employed remained at the relief
station for over an hour to see that
every case was acted upon.
This was the most militant dem
onstration seen in years in Youngs-
town. A public hearing is being or
ganized by the Unemployment
Councils to uncover the conspiracy
OF silence in the capitalist press and
the state of the relief situation on
Monday, Oct. %, at 118 East Board
man Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Says Fight Against the
Fascists Is the Major
Issue in Campaign
BY ELLA REEVE BLoOR

John j. SCHEFCIK. Communist
y candidate for Governor of the
State Of Nebraska, announced that
one Of the major struggles facing
the workers and poor farmers in
that region is the fight against rap
idly developing fascism.
During the campaign here.
while we are fighting for relief and
insurance of the unemployed and
material aid for the impoverished
farmers, our fight for the right to
strike and organize and against the
fascist bands that have been at
lacking workers and farmers in the
Loup City area. has become a cen
trail issue" declared Schefcik.
In this drought-stricken country
fascism flourishes, with the most
bestial intimidation and attacks by
armed gangs, peace officers, courts,
etc, on the workers and farmers,
aimed to break up ther organiza-
ton and stif1e their struggles for
relief.
The Farmers Holiday Associa-
ton, the Unemployed Councils of
three towns arcadia, Loup City
and Grand Island) formed united
front to support the strike struggles
of the women workers in the big
creamery at Loup City, where they
worked at miserably low wages and
under the most terrible unsanitary
conditions and speed-up.
We held a joint meeting with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17

in the sides of his little home. dam
aging his furniture and barely
missing Booth and his wife as they
lay in bed.
Now the second trial has been
held-our appeal to the District
Court. Again we were charged with
"inciting to riot although all the
rioting was carried on by the fas-
cist bands who attacked our meet
ings and shot up the home of
Booth. This second trial was
turned into an educational forum
for the workers and farmers who
packed the court in militant soli-
Clarity with the defendants. Be-
cause of this solidarity, the armed
fascist bands we're absent from the
second trial and the court itself was
less openly hostile, although clear
ly intent on carrying through the
frame up. but in more concealed
manner than at the first trial.
Perjured Testimony
Despite the mastery defense put
up by the International Labor De-
tense attorney, Dental, and the 10
cal defense attorney, and their
thorough exposure of the perjury
and contradictory statements of
the state witnesses the jury re-
turned verdict of guilty. Through
out the appeal of the defense at
torney and my own address of 10
minutes to the jury. the jurors had
sat there stolidly, determined to do
the will of the bosses. The verdict
of guilty, returned in the face OF
the clear proof of perjured test
mony, surprised both the judge and
the prosecuting attorney. The for
mer soon recovered his equilibrium,
however, and beamed approval at
the jury. and sentenced us to 500
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Survey in Steel City
Shows Workers Homes
Are Unfit as Dwellings

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. I6.-A
survey Of housing conditions in the
city's First, Second and Sixth
Wards just released by the Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh Bureau of Bust
ness Research draws a fac.ual in
dictment Of the degradation of the
working class by the steel-dom-
mated ruling class here.
The survey comments: These
three wards present one of The
gloomiest housing pictures in the
city Of Pit sburgh." One of these
is the downtown" ward, the other
two are known as the Strip dis
trict.
Three-fourths of the houses in
the Second and Sixth Wards have
no hot water, and over that per-
centage of the dwellings in The Sec
ond have no bathtubs or showers.
Of total of 5,957 occupied dwell
ings, 767 are pronounced unfit for
habitation," and 1913 need struc-
tural repairs.
In the First Ward. 90,4 per cent
of he houses have no central heat
ing system; in the Second Ward 80
per cent have none; and in the
Sixth, GAL per cent.
In the Second Ward. 1876 occupied
dwellings have no plumbing of any
sort.
More than 43 per cent of all the
dwellings surveyed we're built over
fifty years ago. Over 8S per cent
of the houses are occupied by ten
ants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
500 JObless Workers
Demonstrate at Relief
Offices in New Castle

NEW CASTLE, Pa, Oct. 16.-Five
hundred men. women and children,
led by the Womens Auxiliary of
the relief workers union here. dem
onstrated before the local relief Of
ices yesterday demanding sufi-
Gent relief to all unemployed.
After a short meeting before the
relief headquarters, two commit
tees, one representing the men and
one the women, met with the relief
director and presented demands
calling for doubling the present re-
lief, free medical and dental aid,
cash payment Of rent, gas, coal.
electricity and water, issuance of
orders for winter clothing as need
ed, allowances to be made for
young children on the family relief
budgets, and jobs at union wages
and conditions for all unemployed
workers now on relief.
Relief Director Ormond was
forced to promise that all the de-
mands would be presented to the
State Relief Commission and will
report at the next open meeting Of
the relief workers union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Workers Battle
For Industrial UniOniSm
In Ne'V Kensington Local
Constitutional Committee Is Instructed to Draw
Up New Constitution Embodying Rank
and File Industrial UniOnism

NEW KENSINGTON. Pa, Oct. Is.
Rank and file members of the
Aluminium Workers Union local
here are moving into action 10 pre-
vent the American Federation of
Labor Executive Council from har-
Messing their union 10 reformism
under industrial unionism" of the
type of the United Mine Workers,
with set of top officials APP
pointed by William Green. At FIJI
days meeting of the local union
the rank and file forced through a
move calling for the election Of a
cons tuition and bylaws committee.
This constitution committee was
duly nominated, will be elected at
next Fridays meeting of the local,
and will report back in two weeks
from that date with a cons tuition
which, according to the wording of
the motion which created it. will
embody the principles of industrial
unionism under rank and file con-
troll"
Vote Forced BY Members
Immediately after the motion
was introduced by a rank and file
leader Dave Williams, A. F. of l..
organizer, tried to hold up the ac-
ton by declaring that the union
already has a constitution and that
such move is contrary to A. F. of
L. rules. But a vote was forced
through by the rank and filters in
which the motion was carried al
most unanimously.
Almost every nominee is a rank
and filler, the few reactionaries
which were named by friends of the
officialdom refusing to serve on the
committee.
Action for the election of new
executive council was also forced
through at the last meeting, and
many of the rank and file leaders
who comprise the slate for the con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17

Stitution committee we're likewise
named as candidates for the execu-
tive council. These will be elected
at the next meeting.
President Paul HoWlett's threat
ened resignation failed to material
ize, but the latter's attitude to-
ward leaders of the rank and file
movement has noticeably altered
and now he rarely attempts to rap
them out of order when they are
speaking from the floor, having
learned that they have the full
support of almost the entire union
membership.
Revive Arrest Threat
Williams has revived a former
threat to have the workers arrested
who rented the post office box
which the Committee for Rank
and File Control" uses, and is
vainly attempting to disconcert
these leaders with talk of bringing
in the Department of Justice on an
investigation of their leaflet.
Red" Giordano, one of the Will
Jams machine, tried to pass a mo-
ton thanking the New Kensington
police force and Burgess for help
ing the aluminium workers during
their last strike. Rank and filters
attacked the motion, however, and
when a vote was taken Giordano's
resolution was turned down unani-
mously by the membership.
These leaders also spiked an at
tempt by Williams to strike the
words rank and file control" from
the motion establishing a constitu-
ton committee.
The aluminium workers are fully
alive to the danger of being saddled
with a John L. Lewis-in industrial
union by Green and company, hence
their eagerness to write constitu-
ton of their own before the A. F.
of L. dictates one.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
MESA. Local
Urges Unity in
Auto Industry
Demands Removal of
Byrd from Auto
Labor Board

DETROIT, Oct. 1s.-A motion
urging the Mechanics Educational
Society of America, independent
union Of tool and dienakers, to
issue call to all unions in the
automobile industry for united ac-
ton was passed at a meeting of
Local 9 Of the MESA. Sunday.
The motion asked for united ac-
ton around the following points:
THE removal Of Richard L. Byrd
as labor" representative on the
Automobile Labor Board; 2-Abo-
lition Of the Labor Board and the
Auto Code; 3-The drawing up Of
a Workers Code in place Of the
present manufacturers code.
The passing Of this motion marks
not only a step forward toward
unity, but is a setback to the Mat
thew Smith clique in control of the
MESA who have steadfastly OPP
posed united action in defense of
the interests Of all automobile
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
New Orleans Strike
Wins Reinstatement
Of Fired Relief Men

NEW ORLEANS. La, Oct. 10
Relief workers employed at the City
Park project here struck last week,
following the firing Of forty-f1ve
workers, elected a committee under
the leadership of the Unemploy-
ment Council, and forced the re-
lief Office to reinstate the dis
charged workers. The men set up
permanent organization on re-
turning to work, despite the an
nouncement by the relief office here
that it would refuse to meet with
them collectively in the future.
The workers have protested
against the terrorist tactics and
discrimination practiced by the
supervisor, foreman and an office
worker. Raymond, Riley and Tobin,
and demanded their removal Rub
Der boots for workers employed on
the lagoon. and raincoats and shell
tiers are demanded during rainy
weather.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
TailOrs Strike
For Demands
In Detroit
J Ourne I'M en- s Local
Fighting for New
6-MOnth Pact
Especial to the Daily Worker,

DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 16.-The
workers of Hughes and Hatcher
and the Finsterwald Clothing Co.,
manufacturers of mems clothing,
struck here under the leadership Of
the Journeymen Tailors' Union 229
CA. F. of L..
They are demanding the signing
of six-month agreement calling
for seventy cents an hour for
bushelmen, seventy five cents for
tailors, pressers and filters, a forty
hour week, time and a half for
overtime, and equal pay for equal
work for women.
Last Spring the workers struck
for union agreement, but Frank
x. Martel, President of the Detroit
Federation of Labor, put over a
settlement together with the Re-
gional Labor Board that gave the
workers no signed agreement, but
resulted in discrimination against
militant workers and in all kinds
OF chiseling by the employers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Pay Cuts Continued for
Detroit County Workers

DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 16.-Two
days after it had voted to increase
the salary of the county prosecutor
and his chief assistant by nearly
20 per cent. the Ways and Means
Committee of the Wayne County
Board of Supervisors decided to
postpone indefinitely the with
drawal of two 10 per cent wage cuts
handed out to county employees in
1892.
The salary of county prosecutor
was increased from $4,000 to SILL
500 year, with a proportionate
increase for his chief assistant,
upon the request of Conner Krise,
Republican candidate for prosecu-
tor, who evidently expects to get
elected.
At the same time that top Off
Gals are having their pay boosted,
relief budgets for thousands of un-
employed families are being cut 5
per cent, while new applicants are
finding it increasingly difficult to
get on the welfare roll.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Nebraska C. p. Candidate Assails Fascist Terror

these girls one day last June. The
County Chairman of the farmers
organization presided at this meet
ing. The leader of the Unemployed
Councils, a girl striker, Bert Sell, a
well-known farmer of Arcadia. and
myself, were the speakers. We or
ganized a committee of Is to visit
the creamery bosses to present our
demands. AS result of the united
fight of the workers and farmers
with the strikers, some of these de-
mands were granted.
Upon our return to the Court
House steps where the farmers and
workers were waiting for our report,
an army of thugs, armed with
blackjacks, swooped down on the
assembly. screaming, Kill the mig
ger" (the unemployed organizer)
Get the woman" etc. Fifty-year-
old Bert Sell was struck down, his
skull broken wide open, his rios
broken and his kidneys terribly in
jured, as the thugs kicked and
trampled him as he lay uncon-
scious on the ground.
The doctors believe that Bert
Sell will never be we'll man
again 1 escaped injury only by
getting behind great tree as the
thugs rushed upon us.
Fascists Attend Trial
The story of the falling Of the
Negro organizer, his wife and my
self during those terrible hot days
last summer has been told. The
first trial where we were convicted
and sentenced was attended by 100
armed fascists.
Five times high powered rifles
were used to lombard the home of
Floyd Booth, the young Negro I'M
employed organizer, tearing holes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
.JObless Leader
Asks Action on
Hunger March
Sullivan Urges CrOunps
to Intensity Their
Preparations

Asking for intensification Of the
entire campaign leading up to the
statewide hunger march to con-
verge on Albany on Oct. 81 to pre-
sent demands for a special session
Of the State Legislature for enact
ment of winter relief and the Work
ers' Unemployment Insurance Bill.
Richard Sullivan. secretary Of the
New York City Unemployment
Councils, yesterday appealed to all
working-class organizations to carry
forward preparations for the march.
Sullivsn's statement follows:
The Wall Street banker. Herbert
Lehman, governor of New York, has
fatty refused to call a special ses-
sion Of the State Legislature or take
any othe. action to provide winter
relief.
I am sure that the unemploy-
ment insurance question will come
before the regular session next
year ne declared when representa-
tives OF the United Action Confer
ence met with him Saturday. At
the last special session, when rep
resentatives of workers groups pre-
sented relief demands ami called
| for the enactment Of the WORKERS.
Bill he answered, You will get
neither this bill nor any other at
this session. In the same manner
as Roosevelt, he now puts of &C.
ton to some future date.
These promises will not feed
hungry children; they will not clothe
the unemployed this winter, nor
heat the cold flats in Harlem. The
brazen answer Of the governor is
proof that he will not act without
pressure of the masses.
He told a delegation in July.
1888. that Your program will be
considered only if there is sufficient
public interest indicated
That public interest has been H.
Illustrated by the endorsement of
the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill by hundreds of work.
ing-class organizations throughout
the state. This interest must be
turned into active struggle.
THE executive mansion In AL
bany must be deluged with post
cards setting forth the demands of
the unemployed. Every organiza-
ton, the workers and farmers. pro-
fessionals, students and youth must
be rallied in support of the hunger
march to Albany. All workers
groups should Immediately elect
delegates from among their mem
bership for participation in the
march. and get behind the cam
paign to raise money, food, blankets
and other necessities for the march
In every town and city where
the governor speaks in his election
campaign, delegations should visit
him demanding a special session of
the State Legislature for enact
ment of the jobless workers de-
msnds, and for feeding and housing
the delegates while on the march
and in Albany.
+ Every assemblyman's home
should be picketed until he calls
upon the governor to convene
special session of the legislature.
Hundreds Of marchers from
throughout the state, arriving in
Albany on Oct. 81, will force the
governor to change his mind"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
u. S. Farmers
Elect Delegate
FOrSOviet Trip
Julius Walsted to Make
Survey of Collective
Farms in U.S.S.R.

Julius Walstad has been elected
as the delegate to represent Ameri-
can dirt farmers on the friends of
the Soviet Union delegation. which
will reach Moscow in time for the
Nov. 7 celebration. Walstad, en-
dorsed by the Farmers National
Committee for Action and the
United Farmers League, as well as
By tens Of thousands of other dirt
farmers, will make a thorough sur
vey of State, collective and COM
munal farms in the Soviet Union.
The newly-elected delegate has
been active in the struggle for bet
ter farm conditions in South Da-
kota, his home state, and was re-
Gently arrested with Is other farm
ers for stopping an eviction Of a
debt-ridden tenant-farmer.
Walstad, as we'll as the other
delegates, will speak at a mass
send-off to take place at the Man
haitian Lyceum, 66 e. 4th St.. on
Friday evening All interested in
having the delegation obtain an
swers to questions regarding the
Soviet Union while in the U.S.S.R.
are urged to come to the send-off.
where such questions will be col
lected and given to the delegation,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Terror Drive Launched
On New Orleans Jobless

NEW ORLEANS. La. Oct. 10
Bcasting that they will have all
the reds in jail within two years,
Emergency Relief Administration
officials here have started drive
against the leaders of the unem-
ployed.
Ida Bates, leader of an Unem-
ployment Council local which has
won relief for two hundred fami-
lies, has been beaten and jailed in
an attempt to smash the Council
local. She will be tried today at
the First Recorders Court, Tulane
Saratoga.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Farm March
In Minnesota
Wins Relief
Two Hundred Destitute
Farmers Present
Relief Demands

CARLTON, Minn.-Two hundred
farmers, under the leadership of the
United Farmers League, marched
on the county relief offices here,
held the court house for four hours,
and presented their demands for
sufficient relief, medical aid, free
cattle feed and endorsement of the
Farmers Emergency Relief Bill.
Despite the refusal of the relief
officials to listen to the demand,
and despite their avowal that they
had not received copies of the de-
mands in advance although COM
munications setting forth the de-
mands had previously been mailed
to them, The farmers, individually
and through their spokesman, R..
Tanttila, demanded full payment of
all relief in cash, increased relief
to single unemployed and poor
farmers, no discrimination in the
giving of relief, free feed for cattle
and hot lunches for school children.
Immediate relief was granted to
farmers who had previously been
denied relief and allowances were
increased in several cases presented.
A committee was elected to rep
resent the farmers of Carlton County
at the State Relief Conference to
be held in st. Paul on Oct, %
and %.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Detroit Jobless Plan
Fight on Relief Cuts

DETROIT Mich, Oct, 16.-Sixty
delegates of various organizations,
at relief conference in North
Detroit Saturday, held in Polish
Chamber of Labor Hall. mapped
out program of struggle for in
creased relief and against the new
5 per cent cuts in the family bud
get that the welfare authorities are
irving to put through.
The conference decided to at
tempt to secure relief for eleven
needy families in that section. and
to organize a demonstration to
demand a 20 per cent increase in
the family budget, winter coal, in
creased medical and dental aid and
other demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17

Corp, and viii be used TO pay their
bank loans in closed banks and
sufficient additional sum to assure
their carrying on an enlarged pro-
gram, " according to the Daily News
Record of Aug. 81.
Botany Mills of New Jersey has
received a loan of $1,000, 600 from
the government, and U. S. Finishing
Company a like amount.
The Booth Manufacturing Com
pany of New Bedford tas been
granted a capital loan of $500 900
by the R. F. c., it was reported on
Oct. 8. The Tsber Mill of New Bed
ford had previously received a sim.
liar loan.