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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
BY TOM KEENAN,

PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 19.-
The workers Of Pittsburgh have set
up a defense committee for mass
campaign to smash the frame-up
Of Jim Egan, Phil Frankfeld, Emma
Brletich and Dan Benning, whose
sentences were affirmed las week
by the Pennsylvania ST. .erior
Court, and to demand the immedi-
ate release Of all four victims of the
Steel-owned capitalist courts.
Appeal petitions are being filed
this week with the Supreme Court
Of Pennsylvania, and if favorable
action is not obtained from the
state all four cases will be fought
to the United States Supreme
Court, thus experimenting the
broad mass campaign with legal ac-
ton.
Frankfeld faces a two to four
year term in the workhouse as a
result Of frame-up charges of "in-
citing to riot" and "otNtructing"
legal process of law. He was ar
rested following an attempted con-
stable sale of the MacGregor fam
ily's goods on a Patton township
farm last Sept. l, when workers of
the unemployed council there
bought the goods for $115 and re-
turned them to MacGregor.
Six of the workers who had made
the purchase were enticed into the
sheriff's Office in the city, ostensibly
to issue bill of sale. Here the six
were arrested, one of them tricked
into entering plea of nolle con-
tendre on the promise Of being lat
er dismissed without trial.
The latter, Sam Jessop, was
tried, however, and sentenced to a
year in jail. Claiming to have OBJ
tanned enough evidence during the
hearing, the judge then issued a
bench warrant for Frankfeld, who
had not even been present at the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
Working for the United Front

IN THE adjoining reports beginning
in from sections country the
the Communist sections welding
with their fellow Party.
all these organizations
written letters
ganizations
Delegations will visit these Socialist Open
frank and comradey with
Party what and must be done right in the critical
that upon helped The terror
must be fought.
The working grim swiftly
advancing Fascist terrorism preparations ngostc
Socialist workers well Communists face these capitalist
talies. They must fight them together
The United Front will not about smoothly
There will be misust suspicion hndrance on
the find way to over
these obstacles must!
Let the United proposals locals Let there
delegations meetings for mutual
discussion of immediate actions!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
Delegation to Present
Relief Demands to
State Welfare

NEWARK, N. J.-Sixty delegates
rom d cities representing $3.50 or
ganiEed unemployed and relief
workers throughout the state, in a
conference held here July 7, called
for the mobilization of a mass dele
cation to Trenton on July %, when
the workers relief demands will be
presented to the state relief ad-
ministration.
The delegates from the Is organi-
cations represented at the united
front conference called upon their
membership to hold local demon
STATIONS at the relief stations for
immediate cash relief to the I'M
employed and union rates of pay to
all relief workers.
Newark workers will hold mass
meeting and send off for the
Newark delegation on Saturday,
July 81, at pm, at Sokol Hall,
$50 Morris Ave. The Newark and
Harrison delegations will leave from
358 Morris Ave-, Monday, July %,
at a. m.
The July 7 united front confer
ence, issued the following state
ment to all unemployed and relief
workers of New Jersey.
Thousands of workers throughout
the state are striking against the
present system of work for relief"
or 10 cents an hour and food
check introduced by the State Re-
lief Administration.
These workers realizing the
only way to successfully fight
against this attack upon their
standard Of living, have organized
tn mselves into organizations
throughout the state.
On June %, 1884, % Relief Work
ers and Unemployment Organiza-
lions from five counties represent
ing 5000 workers, convened in the
city of Newark for the purpose of
creating unified demands for cash
relief throughout the state and for
the uniflcation of the entire strike
on a statewide basis.
From out OF this conference, the
United Unemployment and Relief
Workers Association was formed.
This association is delegated body
composed of delegates from 26 or
CARNATIONS which now represents
seven counties and 5000 workers.
At the conference a program of
demands for cash relief and trade
union rates of wages with mini
mum of SO cents per hour to be
paid on all relief work was drawn
up and presented to the Strike Re-
lief Administration in Trenton on
June % by the elected State Com
mittee. At this time the State Re
lief Director promised to grant
these demands. However, up to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
Vel. to Open
by
Election Rally
St. Louis Conference to
Be First of New
YCL District

ST. LOUIS, Mo, July 1s.-The
first convention of District Il Of
the Young Communist League will
be opened by a youth election rally
today in the Trade Union Hall,
Leonard and Easton.
The new district includes Missouri,
Arkansas, part OF Kansas and the
industrial cities on the east bank
Of the Mississippi. 1t was created
as district by decision of the sew
enth National Convention of the
League recently held in New York.
Claude Lightfoot, young Negro
leader of the Chicago workers and
member of the National Committee
of the Young Communist League,
who received $4,000 votes in the
last elections, will be the main
speaker. Matt Pelman, organizer
Of the new district and militant
leader of the Packing House Work
ers' Industrial Union, who is can
didate for Assemblymsn in the
Third Representative District of ST..
Louis, will also speak.
The convention will end on Sat-
urday night, with an open-air ban
quet and dance to be held in the
yard Of the Labor Lyceum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
United Front Proposals Go to S.P Al Ouer Country

class labor organizations on the
basis of the following issues and
demands:
l. Immediate removal of Sha-
piro, Cannon and Matowitz as
directly responsible for the murder
of Mrs. Williams and S. AREN'T.
2. Compensation for the families
OF the murdered victims.
3. Immediate removal of all po-
lice from relief stations.
4. Turn over the 100000 APP
propriated for police purposes to
the Relief Fund and make pro-
vision for adequate relief in the
City Budget now being considered.
5. Smashing Of all injunctions
against striking workers by mass
violations, such as in the Cleveland
File Co.
6. Full payment of relief to Ne
gro workers; against the Jim Grow
policy of the city government and
for full equality for Negroes.
7. Immediate passage of Work
erS' Unemployment Insurance Bill,
H. r. 1888, by City Council.
8. Unity of all workers in
gigantic anti-war and fascist DEM
onstration on Aug. /.
We make this proposal with deep
seriousness. We urge you to call
an immediate meeting of your
executive, and the Communist
Party stands ready to meet your
committee Immediately so that no
time is lost. At the same time, the
United Front must be forged be-
tween Communist and Socialist
workers in the shops, unions, re-
lief stations and neighborhoods on
the above issues, where the attacks
are steadily growing. Our Central
Committee has awaited weeks al
ready for the answer of your Ma
tional Executive Committee. but to
no avail. We here in Cleveland are
ready for action. Awaiting your
answer, we are,
Comradely,
DISTRICT ORGANIZER,
COMMUNIST PARTY, DIS. 6.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
JaiIers Of HerndOn
Try to Frame DaUiS,
Negro IL. d. Lawyer
Torture, Death on Chain
Gang Awaits HerndOn
Unless Bail is Raised

ATLANTA, Ga, July 19.-An at
tempt by Fulton Tower Prison Off
Gals to frame Benjamin j. Davis,
Negro International Labor Defense
attorney in the case of Angelo
Herndon, was reported by him to-
day.
This attempt by Georgia authori-
ties who have sworn to get" not
only Herndon, but his attorneys and
local sympathisers, took place in
Fulton Tower, where Herndon is
confined. Davis was charged with
attempting to smuggle letters from
Herndon past the censor.
For the first time in several
weeks, was allowed the privilege
of private consultation with Hern-
don in private room when I
called on him to-day Herndon's
attorney declared, in telling of the
attempted frame-up.
Herndon, called down from his
cell, brought a large package of let
terS, sealed and unsealed, and car
ried openly in his hands. The turn
key and assistant jailers made no
objection to his turning the letters
over to Davis.
After an interview, lasting about
40 minutes, Davis left his client,
openly carrying the letters to the
front part of the jail. AS he started
out of the gate, however, one of the
jailers called upon him to halt. He
was taken into the turkeys Office,
where he was accused of attempting
to smuggle the letters out against
prison rules.
you thought you were smart
he was told, "but caught you. You
were trying to slip that stuff out of
here"
One Of the fiunkies then read
a portion of one of Herndon's let
tres addressed to the local Atlanta
World, Negro daily, in which
Herndon in relating the torture to
which he has been subjected, re-
ferred to the jailers as fascist dogs.
Infatuated the fascist dogs threat
ened Davis with trouble" and or
dered the letters sent to the Rev.
John Hudson, fanatical prosecutor
Of Herndon.
Davis has openly carried out
many Of Herndon's letters in the
past. The action of the jailers on
this occasion is clearly part of the
increased terror practised against
Herndon since the Georgia Supreme
Court Decision and the general
terror campaign against militant
workers recently unleashed by Hud-
son and his Red Squad
The present treatment of Hern-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
Steel Workers Fight Terror,
Prepare for National COnfab
Jones-Laughlin Workers
Protest Smuggling of
Young Union Man
By GEORGE GILL

PITTSBURGH, Pa. 49, The local
police, together with the hired
thugs of the Lones q Laughlin Steel
Corp. here are carrying through
the most vicious terror against tbs
workers in their attempt to stop
preparations for the second nation
al bi-annual convention Of the steel
and NJ etal Workers Industrial
Union. The police have instituted
curfew and threatened to arrest
anyone found on the streets after
u o'clock midnight.
Only a few nights ago, Monday,
July 8, Edward SosnowsH was
slugged and shot by patrolman
Marion Chapman, on the excuse
that he was lettering on the streets
late at night. A worker in this
district was arrested for sitting on
the porch Of his home in slippers
and without a shirt, on the charge
Of indecent exposure. 1t has been
reported that more than 200 ar
rests have taken place in this dis
trict. This, coupled with the at
tack against the foreign born work
ers, is used in order to smash the
growing sentiment in favor Of the
Steel and Metal Workers Indus
trial Union, and to stop the prepe-
rations for the second national
convention, to be held on August
3-4-5.
On Saturday evening, July IA,
following the first session OF the
National Board meeting Of the
Union, James Egan, national secre~
tary, spoke to more than $50 work.
ers protesting against these brutali-
ties. The workers elected q dele
cation and sent a protest to the
Mayor and to the city council.
The Union is arranging mass
meeting for Friday, July 81, to be
held in the South Side High School,
at which the workers will discuss
their plans to further the struggle
against the mass layoffs in this
mill, and the mobilization Of the
unemployed workers in support OF
the employed workers. The ques-
lions facing the unemployed work.
ers in this section will also be
discussed and dealt with.
More than ever the steel work.
ers determined to complete their
preparations for the convention
that will show them the way to
action, in their struggle against the
steel barons. More and more, is
the contempt for the Amalgamated
Association leadership being shown
in the steel centers. They are de-
ternined to unite all workers in
making the second national con-
vention of the steel and metal
workers the biggest mobilization
ever seen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20

Party here yesterday offered united
front proposals to the Socialist
Party on platform of eight imme-
date demands of the working class
here in the fight against the mon
strous terrorism and murder I'M
leashed by the city administration
against the starving jobless.
Calling attention to the fact that
the city terrorism against the Com
munists and jobless menace the
Socialist Party workers with equal
force, the Communist invitation
stated:
The Communist Party, in accord
ance with the united front propo-
sails of our Central Committee made
to your newly elected National
Executive Committee, appeals to
the Socialist Party and its members
to join with us in forging a fight
ing United Front of all working
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
1000 Still on Strike
AT Gulf Oil Company

PHILADELPHIA.-Over a thousand
workers at the Gulf Oil company
continue on strike, after a con-
ference with the company allied to
result in a settlement. Inside work
ers, truck drivers, and some station
attendants are out demanding wage
increases from 10 to Is per cent
reinstatement of 81 union members
fired for union activity and the con-
tinuation of the seniority plan Of
hiring additional help from the list
of former employees.
Foremen are threatening strikers
and their wives in attempts to force
them back to work, but no at
tempts have yet been made by the
company to hire strike breakers at
the plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
Chicago Rail
Lodge Urges
United Action
Wolverine Lodge 22z
Sends Letter TO All
Federated Crafts
DAILY worker Midwest Bureau,

CHICAGO, July 18-United 40
ton of all craft Brotherhoods on
the Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
road to fight for the real needs OF
the workers was called for by the
membership of Wolverine Lodge
No. 227 Of the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Carmen of America on July
10.
Following action by lodges els
and 478 Of the Machinists to start
the struggle for the six-hour day,
the Wolverine Lodge voted to send
letter to all the Federated Crafts
of the C. and N. w. urging con-
ference to discuss ways and means
of winning the S0-hour week with
out any reduction, immediate re-
lief, abolition of the speed up, and
unemployment insurance.
Reactionary leaders, while not
daring to openly oppose the issuance
of the call to conference, delayed
the sending of it by claiming that
the Grand Lodge must be consulted
first. A compromise was made by
which the letter will be sent out
within a certain time if the
Grand Lodge does not answer
letter asking its stand.
The move is failing to stop the
work for unity, because members
of the Railroad Brotherhoods Unity
movement are distributing copies OF
the call among railroad workers
without the Grand Lodge approval.
The proposals in the letter are
similar to ones made in leaflet OF
the Unity movement recently issued.
They include 30-hour week with
out reduction in pay; immediate
relief, and establishment Of relief
committees in all of the organiza-
tions with the power to act for the
relief of our needy members" to
eliminate the speed-up system,
and the installation and adoption
of adequate unemployment and So
oial insurance.
The Wolverine Lodge has also
replaced an old and inactive relief
committee with a more militant
one.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
On the
Strike Front
N. ]. Basket Workers Strike
For Higher Pay, Union Status
Especial to the Daily Worker

VINELAND, N. J., July 1870
Basket workers in two factories
owned by the South Jersey Pack
age Co. struck yesterday under the
leadership of the Basket Workers
Locals of the Agricultural and Can
merry Workers Industrial Unien.
when the boss refused their de-
mands and posted a sign closing
the shop.
This morning, the Vineland
workers held a meeting and decided
to go to the Bridgeton Plant. Thirty
five workers in cars rode IL miles
to Br;dgeton. Arriving at the plant
they shouted to the workers to come
out. The boss held the workers hack
about As minutes and then they
started to leave. The boss then
posted sign similar to the one
posted in Vineland.
Strike committees of seven from
each factory have been elected.
The main demands are 20 per
cent increase, time and half for
over 40 hours, statements for piece
work, reinstatement of Phil Lam
bert who was fired for union activ-
ity, and union recognition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
st. Louis Communists
Hold Nominating Meeting

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-At a confer
ence of workers organizations held
July IA in the Trade Union Hall
at Leonard and Easton, workers
representing more than 20 organ
izations, which included Trade
Unions, enthusiastically endorsed
the Communist Party nominees and
platform.
In the platform are demands for
the abolition of all Jim-Crow state
laws, for the rights of Negro youth
to attend the same schools as white
youth, for jobs at union wages or
cash relief of 81 weekly for every
unemployed worker over Is, for a
six-hour day, five-day week, with
out reduction in pay; abolition Of
state sales taxes, etc.
The delegates gave stormy APP
plause when Samuel r. Dukes,
leader of the unemployed, was NOM
mated for Congressman in the 18th
Congressional District. Frank
Brown, farmers organizer, was
nominated for Senator; for State
Superintendent of Schools, Eugene
Mccormack Hill; for Assemblymen
in the Third Representative Dis
trict:: Edward Collins, Negro Levee
worker; Mary Lewis, Negro woman
leader of the unemployed; Matt
Pelman, District Organizer of the
Y. C. L.; Frank Warfield, Secretary
Of the L. s. N. r., we're named.
For Assemblymen in the Fourth
Representative District Alfred Ross
young member of the Communist
Party and leader in the fight fol
Negro rights; Cora Lewis, leader OF
the Nut Pickers' Strike; Isaac Jaffe
and william Unger were nomin-
ated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20

distributed by the Communist
Party section calling for united
front actions in support of the San
Francisco strike and for the anti
war meetings on Aug. /, J. Brandt,
section organizer, announced today.
In addition, the secretaries of
Socialist Party Locals 4, and 8,
as we'll as locals in the Greenwich
Village section, are receiving letters
of invitation to discuss united
front actions.
Delegations of Communists will
visit these branches personally to
urge unity on Aug. in the strug-
gle against war and fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20

ing put on the sub-starvation Home
Relief budgets.
Workers in the trade unions, I'M
employed workers in the neighbor-
hood organizations, veterans and
small home-owners groups, white
collar workers, are urged to elect
delegates that will place the de-
mands Of the unemployed workers
before Gov. Lehman in Albany on
July 81.
Delegates names and addresses
in the New York City area should
Immediately be forwarded to the
committee headquarters, 90 E. goth
Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
Call for Pickets in
Bronx Bread Strike

NEW YORK.-In the fight
against the high cost of bread be-
ing conducted by the Hath st.
Neighborhood Organization Against
GIsHsq 9Q4 '5uIAVI 10 $500 QsTH sql
bosses are seeking to make this a
test case before raising the cost of
bread throughout the city.
The bread strike is now in its
eighth day. In order to win it, the
neighborhood organization, with Of
fees at 1841 Bryant Ave, appeals
to all workers to register for picket
duty. The Office is open from am.
to 10 pm. daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
Communist Party Sections in Chicago, Cleveland,
New York, Send Letters, Delegations
to Socialist Party Locals

situation facing the American
working class. In answer to a pro-
posal by the Socialists that they
would be able to decide next week,
King said:
How can you speak of waiting
a week? Every day counts. Next
week the strike may have been
broken. Next week vigilantes may
be organized here as we'll as on the
coast to attack the workers. Our
leaders are out of town as we'll as
yours, but we Communists react to
this situation"
What authority have you got,
then" the Socialist who claimed
authority asked.
1--WE have the authority of neces-
sity. The whole working class must
act at once. We must forge unity
in support of the strike and against
fascist terror in Chicago" Killing
answered.
Communists, plunging into the
work of preparing the demonstra-
ton, stated that the struggle for
United Front of Socialist and Com
munist workers would continue. In
the meantime, every effors will be
made to involve Socialist locals and
individuals in the demonstration
Saturday.
Union Park. where the mass
protest will take place, is located
at Ogden Ave. and Randolph St.,
and is the scene of Chicago's first
united front action, the famous
Haymarket meeting that was at
tackled by police and turned into
shambles in 1884.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
Jersey Relief Meet
Calls Trenton Mass
Farley for July %

date, the demands have not been
put into effect. On the other hand,
the Relief Administration has stated
that they are going to cut down
on the relief rolls throughout the
state, which means that a campaign
of discrimination is going to be
carried on, especially against those
who have been active in the strike
against 10 cents an hour.
The United Unemployment and
Relief Workers Association Of New
Jersey puts forward the following
program for a more intensive strug-
gle to be carried on by the unem-
ployed of the state for the purpose
of forcing immediate action on the
demands and to fight against dis
elimination.
1. That every organization
holds a demonstration at the
local and county relief offices for
immediate cash payment to the
unemployed, and union wages on
all relief projects.
2. - That every organization
carry on mass picketing on all
projects in their locality until
cash wages are paid.
3.-That every organization par
ticipates in a mass demonstration
to the State Relief Administra-
ton i'm Trenton on July % for
the purpose of demanding imme-
date payment of cash relief and
union rates Of wages on all pro-
jects.
The entire program Of demands
of the United Unemployment and
Relief Workers Association of New
Jersey shall be as followos:
Clash relief for all unem-
plOyed on the following basis
$500 for each single person or
head of the family with $1.25 ad-
ditiOnaI for each dependent.
Gas, electricity, rent, medi-
cal attention, disqualification and
all necessities of life to be pro-
yided by the state for unemployed
workers.
3.-NO evictiOns from homes of
unemployed workers.
4.-NO discrimination against
Negro and young workers.
Demands for Unemployed Working
on Relief Projects
1.-Fifty cents an hour mini
mum in cash for work on all
projects.
2.-SkilIed workers to be paid
at present prevailing union rates
3.-Right of the workers to elect
their own foreman.
4.-Free transportation to and
from projects.
5.-Minimum of 30 hour work
week. No reduction for bad
weather.
6.--NO discrimination against
workers on any projects on the
bass of their strike activities.
7.-Recognition of unemployed
workers organizations.
reimbursement of the Work.
ers Unemployment and Social In
surance Bill II. r. 1893.
1t is the aim Of the United I'm
employment and Relief Workers AS.
ISOLATION of New Jersey to establish
a federation representing all unem.
pigment and relief organizations
and trade unions, so as TO insure
cash payment for all work done a
union wages, to guarantee condi-
lions on the job, to insure cast
relief for all unemployed and pro-
lection against all forms of dis
elimination.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
Fur Pointers Picket
Scab-ShOp- Owning Firm

NEW WORKINGS picketing is
in progress on the fur market by
the pointers department OF the
Fur Workers Industrial Union
against the scab shop Of Stern g.
Goldstein, 236 w. 9th St., which
recently opened new scab
shop in Long Island without the
knowledge of the union.
Over $50 women workers par
ticipated in this demonstration, de-
manding union conditions and a
union agreement. All fur pointers
pledged their full support to the
strike.